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Description
Mind Map by sophiehuangieee, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by sophiehuangieee
over 10 years ago
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DKH
- Characters
- Elesin: relishes earthly desires/full
of self-confidence/ attachment to
material pleasures/corruption of will
and endangers society
- Iyaloja: "mother" of the
market/traditionalist/
does anything for Elesin
that does not transgress
her world/ upholder of
the Yoruba values
- Olunde: Mouthpiece
of the play - brings
the truth and
light/understands
both culture/ dressed
in European suit-
immediate visual
impression as a
hybrid
- 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
- Jane: curbs her
husbands's wilder
excesses of
insensitivity/
sensible but bound
by a set of narrow
values/
understands her
culture through
secondary
information
- Amusa: "Amuser"/
inhabits neither the
Yoruba nor western
world/ sold his
manhood to
colonialists/ accorded
little respect by either
side
- Elesin: relishes earthly desires/full
of self-confidence/ attachment to
material pleasures/corruption of will
and endangers society
- Settings
- 1st/3rd scene: market,
2nd/4th scene: white man's
house, 5th scene: prison cell
improvised in Residency
- Audience compare
different social
experiences
- 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)
- Audience compare
different social
experiences
- No intervals
- Audience have to be fully
engaged or try to keep up with
the play, treats audience as
outsider
- Audience have to be fully
engaged or try to keep up with
the play, treats audience as
outsider
- 1st/3rd scene: market,
2nd/4th scene: white man's
house, 5th scene: prison cell
improvised in Residency
- Language
- English prose vs Yoruba's verses
- 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
- Market girls: used
English language to
ridicule english ways
- 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
- English prose vs Yoruba's verses
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