Okonkwo and "Female Virtues"

Okonkwo  believes that showing female virtues is a sign of weakness. So he chooses to ignore and refuse them to show that he is a "manly man." This causes a lot of problems for him because of the way other people see him after he refuses to show some of these female virtues. One example is after he beat his wife during the week of peace. Inside he felt repentant for insulting the goddess of earth during her week, however he didn't show it on the outside and almost the entire village thought that he was very disrespectful to the gods and that his good fortune had gone to his head. Also, when he was banished to his mother land he refused to do anything for a while especially share his emotions with his family. So, even though they helped him, it wasn't because they liked him, but because he was family. Then, his uncle tries to tell explain to him about all of this, that it is alright to show some female virtues occasionally because it shows others that you are human, however Okonkwo just ignores these words of advice and lives his life as if he never heard them. Those are a few of the many problems that Okonkwo's refusal and his choice to ignore female virtues causes for him.