A Dance Of The Forest Chapter Analysis

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This chapter will discuss Ogun’s characteristics as an object of mistaken identity among scholars, researchers and critics. In a particular community the Ogun figure might be mistaken for something else in a neighbouring town. For example, the nature of Nigerian politics after independence influenced Wole Soyinka’s representation of Ogun. In A Dance of the Forest (1963), Soyinka represents Ogun (Demoke) as an arrogant and obstinate god who anchors conflicts and riots. Thus, Ogun, the misinterpreted and arrogant god contrasts Sunnie Ododo’s presentation of Ogun as the god of justice in Hard Choice (2011). Ogun’s mistaken identity as an arrogant god is addressed by Sunnie Ododo who departs from Soyinka’s representation of Ogun as a god of war. The chapter explores Sunnie Ododo’s postulation on facekuerade and how it helps in understanding the construction of Ogun as a god of justice. Sunnie Ododo’s Hard Choice (2011), presents Ogun as Otapaipoh, who requested a royal blood offering in the Oguguru shrine as a result of the Queen of Emepiri and Chief Ubanga’s
Robert Bullough affirms that, ‘unlike other story forms, parables are meant to puzzle, to “challenge one to a different level of being and self-understanding’ (Bullough 2009: 2). They are stories that remain in one’s memory and stay for long time. The sun and moon are given human qualities capable of getting into quarrel. The Dibia intends to alert the king about the impending danger and what is happening in the confines of his palace. The above extract sets the climax in the play and contains all that had happen and what will still happen in the course of the play. Femi Fatoba opines that, ‘Ifa speaks in parables. He measures his words in metaphor’ (Fatoba 2005: 130). Speaking metaphorically might have been in order not to offend a participant during the rendition or the statement might require each participant to go and pounder on what has been