ENGISH LITERATURE FORM FOUR Your work must be presented in a folder‚ It could be hand written or typed. Due date: Wednesday‚ 29th April‚ 2015 INSTRUCTIONS: Read the notes for the play ‘the lion and the jewel. Answer the questions which follow. Spectacle The term literally means when someone draws attention to themselves or creates a show. It is an event that is memorable for the appearance that it creates. Example #1 One of our first examples of spectacle is when Sadiku dances around a tree with
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Publication Information: Book Title: The Lion and the Jewel. Contributors: Wole Soyinka - author. Publisher: Oxford University Pre Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1963. Page Number: 64. Wole Soyinka THE LION and the JEWEL LONDON Oxford University Press IBADAN 1963 Questia Media America‚ Inc. www.questia.com Publication Information: Book Title: The Lion and the Jewel. Contributors: Wole Soyinka - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: London. Publication
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A Far Cry from Africa: Derek Walcott - Summary and Critical Analysis A Far Cry from Africa by Derek Walcott deals with the theme of split identity and anxiety caused by it in the face of the struggle in which the poet could side with neither party. It is‚ in short‚ about the poet’s ambivalent feelings towards the Kenyan terrorists and the counter-terrorist white colonial government‚ both of which were ’inhuman’‚ during the independence struggle of the country in the 1950s. The persona‚ probably
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Daniela Y January 11‚ 2015 E3-15 The Male Dominant Image In his play The Lion and the Jewel‚ Soyinka expresses his opinions about society through his characters‚ as many authors do in their writing. One of the characters‚ Baroka‚ frequently seeks to take more wives despite his age and subjects his current wives to humiliating tasks such as plucking his armpit hairs and tickling
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CHAPTER SUMMARIES Morning Sidi passes the school and Lakunle rushes out to speak to her. He reprimands her for carrying water on her head and flip flops from wooing her one moment‚ to insulting her the next. The reader learns that Sidi is not opposed to marrying Lakunle‚ but the fact that he refuses to pay her bride price annoys her. Lakunle refuses to pay the bride price because he believes that it is a primitive practice. The villagers‚ who believe Lakunle is mad‚ rush to tell Sidi that the strangers
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Lakunle Lakunle is the schoolteacher of the village. He deeply admires Western culture and seeks to emulate‚ often to comically inadequate effect. He is portrayed by Soyinka as clumsy in both actions and words‚ throwing together phrases from the Bible and other Western works in hope of sounding intelligent. He is "in love" with Sidi‚ but has not married her because she demands that he pay the traditional bride price‚ something he refuses to do. Initially we chalk up this refusal to his Western
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playing card games‚ dancing‚ drinking alcohol‚ telling jokes‚ and listening to music. These events are to distract from the horror they face everyday. They also highlight happiness in difficult times. For example‚ Satrapi uses comic relief in “The Jewels” to balance out the severity of the women of Iran turning on one another with kidney beans and “flatulence” (92). The jokes the children make gives them a sense of childishness and innocence‚ which is quite different from the situation they are in
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KingJewels: Ethical Leadership in practice Situation Analysis The company discovered that a key staff member had accepted advantages in return for manipulating King Jewels’ records‚ approving the use of substandard gemstones‚ bribing subordinates to cover up the matter‚ and possibly accepting the reward from suppliers. However‚ there is one person that has held the secret of who is the behind of this action‚ Wai Man‚ an accountant and finance manager. She found out that her brother‚ Clement Tam
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ESAU GARCIA WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIONS????? BIOLOGY March 5 2012 Mrs Loughney INTRO Extinction is a problem that has been around since the beginning of time. An organism might go extinct for many reasons. Some reasons might be Mother Nature. Man also plays a part as they might over hunt the organism and drive it to extinct. But another cause is natural selection and the belief that only the strong will survive in this game we call life. Many problems can happen because of extinction
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