tradition v/s modernity in "the swamp dweller" p-14
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Name : Umaba Gohil B Semester :4 Roll No: 16 Class: M.A. Part 2 Paper No : 14 African Literature Topic: Tradition V/S Modernity in ‘The Swamp
Dweller’ Email ID : [email protected] Submitted By : Smt S.B. Gardi, Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University, Department Of English.
Wole Soyinka’s play ‘The Swamp Dweller’ was written in 1957.
The Nigerian playwright wole soyinka was born in 1934.
Soyinka was one of the few African writers to denounce the slogan of negritude as a tool of autocracy.
His work are like The Invention The lion and the jewel A dance in forest The swamp dweller
The swamp dweller by wole soyinka is a backward village of Nigeria in the delta region. But the character of the play often have important interactions with a town life.
The town is place of the money, and luxury to the swamp dwellers. Town is also symbol of corruption.
The play mirrors the socio cultural pattern, the pang and and the sufferings of the swamp dwellers and underlines the need for absorbing new ideas.
The swamp dwellers expresses the necessity for balance between the old and new .
In the play we see Soyinka's crusade against authoritarianism, complacency and self delusion.
the swamp the city is the result of colonialism, capitalism,industrialization,the shift from tradition to modernity.
Flood is not only reason.
Makuri explains not grain was saved, not one tuber in the soil..and what the flood left behind was poisoned by the oil in the swamp water
“Modernity is something such as a system or a factory means to change it by replacing old equipment or methods with new ones”.
Alu, Makuri and Igwezu are representation of tradition.
Awuchike and Desala are representation of modernity.
Tradition is taught by our elder.
Modernity – a persons thoughts about the world
Soyinka presented Nigeria as a country in tradition, attempting to mold itself out of variety of tribal cultures and a turbulent Europe Colonization.
Tradition and modernity both are opposite from each other. It is not new but very old.
Tradition is taught by our elder. Modernity – a persons thoughts
about the world
Soyinka presented Nigeria as a country in tradition, attempting to mold itself out of variety of tribal cultures and a turbulent Europe Colonization.
Tradition and modernity both are opposite from each other. It is not new but very old.
In the play also we can find the same problem igwezu and awuchike they both are twins. one is representing tradition and another is representing modernity.
• “A village in the swamps. Frogs rain and other noises. The scan is a hut on stilts, built on one of the scattered semi-firm island in the swamp. The walls are marsh stakes plaited with hump ropes. Near the left down stage are the baskets he makes from the rushes which are strewn in front of him.”
Swamp is chaotic and they are living in the chaos.
• Modernity does not weaken the tradition.
Tradition- a framework of nationhood
Use of River, Serpent, Swamp and use of city life these are polar oppositions in the play.
Conclusion• The play Swamp Dweller shows village life
and city life so here it shows the Village life connected with the tradition and city connected with Modernity.
• So tradition and Modernity are opposite from each other .
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