Name : Goswami Gayatri M

Roll no : 8

M. A. Sem - 4

Year : 2015

Paper no : 14 The African Literature

PG Enrolment no : 13101011

Email ID : gayatrigoswami19@gmail.com Submitted to : Department of English Smt . S. B . Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji Bhavnagar University

Topic : Tradition V/S Modernity in Swamp Dweller

The swempe dweller in Tradition V/S modernity • The Swamp Dweller is a Play by Soyinka in which he has portrayed the real picture of two sides that is Tradition V/S Modernity.

• The play is about Yoruba culture in wich ‘Makuri’ and ‘Alu’ for their son , whose named is ‘Awuchike’ .

•The play is about struggle between human being and the Unfavorable force of the nature .

• Soyinka’s drama presents the post- colonial Nigerian.

Awuchike and DesalaMakuri , Alu , Igwegu

Modernity Tradition

• Igwegu and Awuchike they both are twins. One is representing Tradition and another is representing modernity.

• Tradition and Modernity is a linear theory of social changes

Tradition

“Tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within group or society with symbolic meaning or special significant with origin in the past”.

• “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.

River

Sarpant

swamp

Bagger Kadiye

Modernity

“Modernity is something such as a system or a factory means to change it by replacing old equipment or methods with new ones”.

Auchike and Desala

Modernity 

No tradition

No identity No craft 

No heritage 

•A change in society

• The concept of development in modernity

“Makuri: - The city is a large place .You could live there all your life and never meet half the people in it.”

• This dialogue shows the reality which lies in city life.

 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 .

Thank you…