What is the meaning of Swamp? How Wole Soyinka has used it symbolically in the Swamp Dweller?
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Topic: What is the meaning of Swamp? How Wole Soyinka has used it symbolically in the Swamp Dweller? Name: Kinjal Patel Paper Name: The African Literature Roll No: 14 Semester: 4 Submitted to: S.B.Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Gmail Id: [email protected]
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Topic: What is the meaning of Swamp? How Wole Soyinka has used it
symbolically in the Swamp Dweller?Name: Kinjal Patel
Paper Name: The African LiteratureRoll No: 14Semester: 4
Submitted to: S.B.Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar UniversityGmail Id: [email protected]
“well, the first thing is that truth and power for me from an antithesis, an antagonism, which well hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.”
--- Wole Soyinka
Meaning of Swamp
Swamp is an area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water is collected.
Swamp is an area of low-lying well or seasonally flooded land, often having tress and dense shrubs or thickets.
Symbolism means
Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from – their literal sense and has much deeper meaning.
Symbolism in the play is an important avenue for the expression of playwrights views on the Nigerian society.
Nigeria faced internal wars,
environment degradation,
political marginalization,
social enslavement and endemic poverty.
Crisis in Nigeria
In ‘The Swamp Dwellers’ the tragedy
is
attributable to fate, the Gods,
oil exploration
filial rivalry
Symbolic significance
The priesthood in The Swamp Dwellers, especially in its indifference and opulence in the midst of suffering symbolically represents the Nigerian leadership.
Almost all the characters have the symbolic significance.
The play symbolizes the condition and sufferings of the people dwelling there.
Symbolized through the characters
Tradition Modernity
Symbols in characters contrasts
Alu
Makuri
Igwezu
Kadiye
BeggarAwuchike
Desala
Life in Swamp
dependent on nature and their fate,
religion and rituals
lives are full of despair and poverty
Filled with mud
They are not able to come out
Afraid of tradition
Conclusion
The play, The Swamp Dwellers by using various symbols shows
marching towards progress of
Nigerian society.
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