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Satire And Social Mediation In Wole Soyinka’s
[A CASE STUDY OF THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO AND A PLAY OF GIANTS]
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1.1 AIMS/PURPOSE OF STUDY
The purpose of this research endeavour is to portray the
socio-political ills of the Contemporary Nigeria Society as represented
in the works of Wole Soyinka. The interest of this playwrights is the
use of Satire as a potent weapon to mock political problems, leadership,
mediocrity vice-versa religious hypocrisy, moral decadence,
exploitation andegostic tendencies of the people trusted with the
mandate of the masses. The concern of this research study is to
enumerate the relevance of satire for the correction of socio-political
ills of the contemporary Nigeria Society. This focus make this study
quote relevant and useful for academic purposes and further related
studies. The study will also aim at addressing the imbalances in the
society and how this writers view this differences. This study is being
embarked upon in order to bring out the salient idea behind these
writers use of satire as it affects the life of Nigerian citizens.
1.2 JUSTIFICATION
This study is important as it brings to limelight issues that are
integral to our society which many people are not aware of. More so,
this study intends to re-emphasis and expose the use of satire by
African playwright to lash political leaders and religious leader and
highly esteemed people in the society. The work of Wole Soyinka are
appraised as a corrective instrument for socio-political problems of
Nigeria contemporary society.
Through the use of satire the
authors Wole Soyinka has been able to expose the ills and vices in the
Nigeria socio-political system since independence. Attention will be
drawn not only to the weaknesses in the society but also to the attitude
which must be change, if the society is to develop and their importance
and relevance to the contemporary times.
This study will
also focus on the awareness of the people to the policies of the
government, the tyranny and evil that pervaded his rule and the uptum of
justice and misrepresentation of the truth. A particular character seen
as being totally power drunk and this trait is seen as been totally
power drunk and this peculiarities and idiosyncrasies. However, powers
the bottom line. The way, the shade and color of the power are now the
issue. The work is also embarked up on to establish the fact that
political and economic violence is a phenomenon satired by literary
master piece.
1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The
purpose of this research work is to add flavour to the already existing
scholarly established opinion that satire as a literary form has gone
along way not only to attack the assumed unattackable ills and vices in
human life which are mostly blinded by emotional instinct, but also as
like no other literary application brought reformation to all these ills
and vices in terms of political, social and economic ways. Another
vital significance is the correctly position that in as much as man’s
existence as a social being in intermittently unending the existence of
satire would not only continue to complete with the age of man but
would remain firmly abated. The essay is also meant to add useful
literacy contribution to the existing body of knowledge in this field
and to serve as useful literary contribution to the existing body of
knowledge in this field and to contribution and to serve as useful
consultation in this field for future researchers.
1.4 SCOPE AND LIMITATION
The scope of this work is firstly assessing some of the available
materials on satire (literature review) to the sourcing of Data as in
studying satire and analyzing the texts by Wole Soyinka ‘The Trials of
Brother Jero’ and A PLAY OF GIANTSâ€.
This research work
will be limited to the justification and analysis of satire. It will be
clear from our objective that even though the research deals with satire
generally, we shall limit our study to the use of satire in the
selected texts to expose the social and political malaise in Nigeria
religion and political leadership.
The limitation has been dictated by the need to attempt a thorough research within the available time.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research endeavour focuses on the social and political ills prevalent in the African societies with the view of correcting them thus, making the contemporary society a better place to live. Using two texts from renowned Nigeria writer, we see the economic, social and political evils which morally degrade our society and the community at last. These evils are being satirized to bring about transformation. Here, the sociological approach is employed. The quota sampling system is use in this r ... Continue reading---
