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• W2994170306 abstract "Soyinka portrays the metaphor of and its nature in his play The Road. Written in 1965, the play is profoundly influenced by Yoruba sense of continuity between life and death and of the limits on human knowledge of the universe. Songs and rituals constantly break through the surface of the drama and draw attention to this Yoruba dimension. The Road depicts the Nigerian experiences during the middle of the twentieth century, and it reflects the roles played by drugs, criminals, corrupt policemen, and unscrupulous politicians.In the prefatory note to Death in the Dawn, Soyinka (1967, 10) explains that he was inspired by real event:Driving to Lagos one morning white cockerel flew out of the dusk and smashed itself against my windscreen. A mile further I came across motor accident and freshly dead man in the smash.The lines May you never / When the road waits, famished have only superficial meaning for the reader who is unaware that Soyinka is saying that it is Ogun, the god of the road (in Yoruba cosmology), and not simply the road itself, that waits, hungry. Ogun is hungry for food, whatever its form, whether humans slain by accident, or dogs (his favorite meat) deliberately killed by his taxi-driving devotees. All these ideas are deeply explored by Soyinka in The Road. It is not accidental that Samson in this play is made to repeat word by word the same plea May we never when the road waits, famished (Soyinka 1975). This deliberate coincidence betrays Soyinka's fascination with the predatory quality of the road. This beast of prey which lies in wait is a monstrous man-eater: an inescapable doom. Soyinka's exhortation not to walk when the road waits, famished seems cold and remote. In any case, it is irrelevant because Man is pilgrim who must travel: Traveller, you must set out at dawn (Soyinka 1967, 10).With cold impersonality Soyinka further tells us of the horror on the life-eating road:We walked through broken braids of steelAnd fallen acrobats. The endless safety netsOf forests prove green deceptionFated lives ride on the wheels of death when,The road waits, famished. (Soyinka 1967, 64)The Road is simply play about day in the strange life of group of drivers on Nigerian road. Their aimless existence, waiting for jobs, drinking, sleeping, dreaming of an exciting future is dominated by the obscure but powerful presence of the Professor. He runs an establishment providing spare parts for vehicles, which are looted from road accident sites. This occupation promotes personal quest for the meaning of death, which encounters him at the end of the play.The play is set on roadside shack, which is the single road for the whole play. Professor, one of the main characters of the play, is the proprietor of The Aksident Store where he sells the spare parts of the vehicles, which he causes to crash by removing the road-signs. Thus he makes money out of death on the road. Kotonu is an ex-driver who has recently witnessed an accident and refuses to drive again. He thus becomes psychological victim of the road. Samson and Salubi are two other characters who are touts. Murano is mysterious dumb servant of the Professor. Joe the police inspector and Say Tokyo Kid the gangster are the other important characters in the play.All these characters are users of the road and are constantly exposed to death. In addition to this, they also interact with policemen, forgers of licenses, looters, and spare parts salesmen. The play begins with Samson and Salubi talking about several things, including the parody of the police force, the church, and the absurd morality of the wars. The play picks up action slowly and toward the climax it is heightened to pitch. Professor, the protagonist, is always in search of the Word. Ultimately, he finds the clue for the mysterious word in death when he confronts death itself in the shape of Murano, who is in Agemo phase. …" @default.
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