Class Exercise minus two contributors who didn't e-mail me

From my understanding of the quotes agree. The selection from Things fall Apart represents strength through Okonkwo who has been able to defeat the cat because of his strength and has not held back. Nietzsche in the following quote appears to be saying that we should not demand strength to be anything but strength. He also relates strength to power and triumph.

I disagree because i believe these two paragraphs don't agree with each other. I believe they have different meanings. I think one is talking about physical strength while the other paragraph talks about the definition. i think Nietzsche is arguing the meaning of strength with support to back it from the definition of weakness.

Both paragraphs talk about strength. They both agree with each other in that sense, but the difference is the first one is talking more about physical strength and the second paragraph seems to be more defining of the word strength. So they really don't agree with each other that much.

In Okonkwo's world the will to power rallies less an intellectual and spiritual strength when could be different as the two other aspects to power and move on the third aspect: physical strength. So in context to his own culture Okonkwo is in a sense a perfect example of Nietzsche's will to power through strength.

They connect, for sure. Indeed, Nietzsche’s quote could have come straight out of Okonkwo’s mouth. If you asked Okonkwo to express himself only in weakness he would be outraged, he would call your request “absurd.” As such Okonkwo’s character is an affirmation of Nietzsche’s assertion.

However, Nietzsche is looking at it the wrong way, we shouldn’t ask strength to act weak or weakness to act as strength. Instead we should ask strength to curb it’s demonstration and weakness to strive a little more. The key to a happy existence is not one over the other but a balance of both. Everything in moderation.

Nietzsche is not asking for strength to act as weakness but stating that it does not work just as weakness cannot pretend to be strength. If weakness were to strive than it would not be considered weakness anymore because it will then acquire the strength to be better. Basically there are those that try and those that do not.