A symbolic drama in a greater extend. Wole Soyinka’s play “The Strong Breed” . is all bout the rites and superstitious believes predominating in the African society. Wole Soyinka is possibly the most misunderstood. extremely controversial figure in the Nigerian populace and literary life. The subject of the demand of the societies to give one of their ain to convey about catharsis of the societies is dealt in this drama. Throughout the narrative. an ambiance of predicting prevails.
At the oncoming. Sunma. urges Eman. who is a alien to her small town. to go forth the topographic point before flushing. The ground for her restlessness is revealed to both Eman and the readers really bit by bit. The small town has an one-year New Year purification rite in which the incorrect behaviors of the villagers are heaped on ‘carrier’- a stranger- so that the community may be redeemed of its wickednesss and have rejuvenation in all sense. There is an built-in thought that the society will be spiritually strengthened as an wake of these forfeits.
The drama moves on with Eman’s determination to be the “carrier” . Initially he is non cognizant of its deductions. Eman’s household bearing the rubric the “Strong Breed” . undertakes the undertaking of bearing the immorality of the small town in a vas across the river yearly. The drama besides deals with the outcaste characters like ‘the girl’ and the abandoned Ifada. The words which Sunma uses to turn to Ifada. “horrible insect” . The stiff caste system carving the roots of the one time colonised continent is apparent in this work.
Chinua Achebe’s short narrative “Marriage is a Private Affair” . trades with the caste-bound restraints of Africa. This even provokes us to believe. was it for this that the British left the continent. It even invokes us to believe us about the distressing conditions of the North Indian provinces. It is the inquiry of our right to populate. “Chance” besides plays a major finding factor in the drama. The exercising of the free- will is besides a important factor. Eman’s destiny entirely remainders on his mental module.
He decides to remain in the small town and take on the function of the whipping boy. But as a affair of fact Eman finally recognizes that it is better to take his fate instead than to populate it. The cynicism and the hypocritical attitude of the seniors in the small town is besides apparent. The fact that ideologies acquire manipulated everyplace besides evolves through this work. The small town is drawn into an ambiance of arrant pandemonium when Eman tries to liberate himself from the chokeholds of the villagers.
In malice of this. even after Eman is killed. his “sacrificial death” does non look to postulate the villagers. On the contrary. it evokes horror. apprehension and guilt. But did the society acquire greening? The thought of moral disgust permeates the drama. Even after the forfeit of Eman. the confusion and the hypocritical attitude continues in the society. The readers are so bewildered with the words of Jaguna “There are those who will pay for this night’s work! ”
