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Symbols Of Decadence In Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
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1.2 STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
The
research problems are areas of concern that affect the human society.
The questions to be focused on, in order to overcome this problem
therefore, are these research questions:
1. What are the symbols of decadence in the society?
2. How has decadence cause trauma and loss of hope in the human society?
3. What are the ways in which decadence can be overcomed in the society?
The
decadence in the society is a symbol or vices that have been affecting
the human society, especially Africa for decades. The research
hypothesis therefore would be that decadence, corruption and oppression
can be wiped out, if man would change for the better, if people can be
more contented and have the fear of God. If this could happen, the
present today will give birth to a better tomorrow when the Beautyful
Ones will be Born in Africa and the world as a whole.
1.3 AUTHORIAL BACKGROUND
Ayi
Armah was born at Sekondi-Takoradi a place now called Ghana in 1939. He
attended Secondary School at Achimota College and Groton, he went to
Harvard to get a degree in Sociology and Columbia to get an MFA in
creative Writing. He has worked as a translator and a teacher at Amherst
and the University of Wisconsin at Madison as well as several African
Institutions.
Armah was also an editor of Jeune Afrique in 1968-1969
and it shows the intense concern with social and political commitment
which was further energized by the atmosphere of increasing political
activism, he encountered in United State especially among African and
American.
His first novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born was
published in (1968). It is still in print and is considered a Modern
African classic. He has written numerous novels which include Fragments
(1970) Why Are We So Blest? (1974) and Two Thousand Seasons in (1979).
1.4 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The
purpose of this research is to examine symbol of decadence in this
text: Ayi Kwei Armah The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. TH
he study also aims at examining the elements in the story that constitutes the data.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
scope of the study is very wide, as the research variables symbols of
decadence is a concept that is interrelated and wide in scope but the
research limits its scope to the issues of symbol and decadence in the
text adopted for the study.
The symbols of decadence are issue that
require of relevant and adequate attention as they affect the human
society. Ayi Kwei Armah addresses the ills of the society and all the
channels of perpetrating these vices in the community.
These issues
are those that the study addresses and the limit will be on the vices as
they eat into the deep core of the society.
1.6 JUSTIFICATION
The justification of this work is that symbol and decadence is simple
to study and according to the findings researchers have dealt with the
novel that have only limited their study to either class differences or
oppress. This research will therefore examine how the authors have
addressed the issue of symbols of decadence in his work.
Symbol and decadence are the key vital image that constitutes the
problems that affect the masses. These symbols will be areas of focus
that will be addressed in the course of the study. Government, citizen
and the entire human society will benefit from this study. The notion of
the people about oppression and corruption will change if people can be
truthful and also live a corrupt-free life.
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