The epigraph to Things Fall Apart is taken from Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming."
The first four lines to this poem are an accurate description of what happens to Okonkwo. At the beginning of the novel, life for Okonkwo is passing normally as it had for years. Over the course of the novel, however, things begin to fall apart. In short, "the center cannot hold."
Due in part to his own actions (and his overwhelming desire to be the opposite of his father) Okonkwo goes from being a respected member of Umuofia to being an exile. After the missionaries arrive, things fall apart for Okonkwo even further. Ultimately, Okonkwo falls from grace and takes his own life.
The epigraph to the novel perfectly summarizes the path of Okonkwo in the novel. He goes from being wealthy and respected to someone whose actions make him an outcast and contribute to his death.
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"The Story of an Hour" is a short story by author Kate Chopin. Mrs. Mallard is the main character, and a great deal of the story concerns her thoughts and feelings.
Her character is quickly and deeply developed through an important event: the supposed death of her husband, Brently Mallard. Only Mrs. Mallard does not know it is just "supposed". She is told it is a sure thing that her husband has died. The news is conveyed in a most careful manner since she has a heart condition that may kill her in case she receives shocking information.
<u>Upon locking herself up in her room to think and mourn, Mrs. Mallard's character undergoes a most amazing transformation. Unlike what anyone had expected, she realizes her husband's death has actually set her free. She is no longer someone's subservient wife. She no longer needs to ask for his opinion and to abide by his rules and decisions. She is her own person now, free to be and do whatever she likes. Her sister and friend are outside, thinking she is crying her eyes out, while Mrs. Mallard is in fact looking out the window, realizing the world has not stopped turning because of Brently's death. Life goes on, and so does she. She is the happiest she has ever been.</u>
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Much of Whitman's prose was guilty by the reason of it being fed by the interconnectedness of nature, and how we, as human beings, relate to this. We also see sensualism and egotism during his "Song of Myself" and "There Was A Child Went Forth". He does inquire in these, that he desires to incorporate all people, and he does talk about the meaning of self.
Also, we see this statement " I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.", Whitman 1049. In his poems, I personally feel though that Whitman was indeed not an egotist, at least for the most part, but mostly and sensualist with egotism implied in certain parts. His sensualistic behavior towards things gives the reader new understanding of a certain perspective.