the lion and the jewel by wole soyinka pdf

It was a place like Baroka disliked-a place of sameness. Lagos was certainly a fascinating and modern city, but it was also heavily influenced by colonialism and experienced the loss of many of its traditions and customs.

No matter that his words are often contradictory and his conclusions easy to poke holes in this is the essence of Lakunle. He boasts, exaggerates, and clumsily tries to beguile (Sidi calls him out on wearying her with such words). Lakunle uses words to shape his reality and to try to make others embrace it as well. Lakunle lauds the city of Lagos as an urban paradise, painting a picture of it as a fantastic, idyllic place. What I boast is known in Lagos, that city / Of magic, in Badagry where Saro women bathe / In gold, even in smaller towns less than / Twelve miles from here. This is not the only time in the text that Lakunle reveals his hypocritical nature, but it certainly is a conspicuous example of it. He seems to want both a chaste wife and a wife whom he can openly flaunt. He does not want people to look at her and lust after her, yet he claims that when they are married she will walk beside him. Lakunle wants her to be a modern wife and kiss him in the street, but he also expresses shock that she bares her shoulders and décolletage.

Lakunle is full of words, and these words are usually directed at Sidi in terms of trying to woo her and trying to admonish her at the same time. quite / A good portion of-that! Lakunle, 2 How often must I tell you, Sidi, that / A grown-up girl must cover up her.

The lion and the jewel by wole soyinka pdf