DKH

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Mindmap am DKH, erstellt von sophiehuangieee am 05/10/2014.
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DKH
  1. Characters
    1. Elesin: relishes earthly desires/full of self-confidence/ attachment to material pleasures/corruption of will and endangers society
      1. Iyaloja: "mother" of the market/traditionalist/ does anything for Elesin that does not transgress her world/ upholder of the Yoruba values
        1. Olunde: Mouthpiece of the play - brings the truth and light/understands both culture/ dressed in European suit- immediate visual impression as a hybrid
          1. Simon: Utterly certain that British values are superior to anything else the world has to offer/ shallow/ little understanding and appreciation for his own culture (mocks christianity)/prime concern in the entire play is to impress the prince
            1. Jane: curbs her husbands's wilder excesses of insensitivity/ sensible but bound by a set of narrow values/ understands her culture through secondary information
              1. Amusa: "Amuser"/ inhabits neither the Yoruba nor western world/ sold his manhood to colonialists/ accorded little respect by either side
              2. Settings
                1. 1st/3rd scene: market, 2nd/4th scene: white man's house, 5th scene: prison cell improvised in Residency
                  1. Audience compare different social experiences
                    1. Improvised jail as an tragic irony: former room for slaves used to keep Elesin (reduced to being a slave from being a dignified King's Horseman)
                    2. No intervals
                      1. Audience have to be fully engaged or try to keep up with the play, treats audience as outsider
                    3. Language
                      1. English prose vs Yoruba's verses
                        1. Exception of Olunde: only local image is calling his father "eater of white left overs", a slip of the local idiom, subconscious behaviour shows that he realizes his roots
                          1. Market girls: used English language to ridicule english ways
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