hello everyone here is my presentation about The African literature. my topic is metaphorical death in swamp dweller novel this novel is written by wole soyinka

1. The African Literature
 Name :- Hitixa Goswami
 Class :- sem 4
 Roll No :- 9
 Paper :- 14 The American Literature
 Beach :- 2019 – 2021
 Topic :- Metaphorical Death in “ Swamp
dwellers”
 Submitted to :- S.B.GARDI Department of
English
 Enrolment no :- 2069108420200013
 Email :- hitixagoswami28@gamil

2. Wole Soyinka
 Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author,
teacher and Political activist who received the Nobel
prize for Literature in 1986.
 Soyinka has published hundreds of works, including
drama, novels, Essays and poetry, and collages all
over the world seek him out as a visiting professor.
 His works
 The invention
 The Lion and the Jewel
 A Dance in the forest
 The swamp dwellers

3. Menining of “ Swamp”
 Swamp is an area of low. Lying, uncultivated ground
where water is collected.
 Swamp is an area of low lying well or seasonally flooded
land, often having tress and dense shrubs or tickets.
 “ swamp menas that kind of soils which are useless as
same in the play the culture of those people who are
living in city is like that”.
 “ swamp” is uncultivated ground where water collects a
bog or marsh. In hindi we can say “ dal- dal”. It means
soils which are useless ; we can’t get anything from it. So
this is the basic meaning of the swamp.

4. About the Play
 The play is comparatively short of all of Soyinka’s plays.
It relates a story of a poor family residing in Niger Delta
region.
 When the play opens we find makuri amd Alu awaiting
for their beloved younger son Igwezu.
 They Fear that their younger son Igwezu should not go
missing like their elder son Awuchick, who had gone to
the city some ten years ago.
 Both brothers had left the village to seek their fortune in
the city.

5. Continue…
 It is a play of mood and atmosphere, constructed so as to
provide the audience with liberal opportunity to make
comparisons and reach judgment. Soyinka makes his points
through implied contrasts and comparisons.
 The swamp dwellers takes a look at the Nigerian society,
progressively moving towards the path of retrogression,
degeneration, corruption and moral decadence. This is a
clear manifestation of the Nigerian society as a class society
with all the contradictions and problems inherent in such
society.

6. What is Death?
 Death is the end of life of any being or organisam. It is
also an instance of a person or an Animal Dying.
 Death includes biological aging, prediction malnutrition,
disease, suicide, murder, and accidents or trauma resulting
in terminal Injury.
 In Human societies, the nature of Death has for Millennial
been a concern of the world’s religions, traditions,
philosophical injury.
 Death word comes from the proto – indo – European
stem dheu – it means the “ process, act, condition of
dying.

7. What is Metaphorical Death?
 Metaphorical Death is military defect of a tribe
city in which people are not die but whole
country get lose by economic by virtually.
 It seens to that there’s an important distention to
be made between being “ spiritually dead” and
being “ dead to sin” in Romans they are almost
opposites.
 There are both types of Metaphorical death.
Human being is two kinds, those who are dead in
life and others who are alive in their graves.

8. What is Metaphorical Death in
“Swamp dwellers”?
 We found spiritual death in Drama. Spiritual death is also
a psychologist conflict in the character of lgwezu and his
family.
 Baggar cautiously refuges aims but he wants to steele
where the river ends and works on the soil; although he
comes from an arid territory, his soul is rich with blessing
pf makuri’s household.
 Though he is blind he has the great vision and insights
and understands the hidden truth of kadiye without
knowing much about him.

9. Continue…
 The Baggar represents motley of symbolic per “ see the light” he is
the hope of his dishearten household.
 The swamp dweller is that human have to find means to survive even
if they live in a senseless world.
 The swamp dweller does not depict total leakiness and despair.
 The swamp dwellers articulates a sense of the disorder of human life.
 In the swamp dwellers we find the spiritual death of character like
Desala who leaves her husband for material comforts where relation
and doesn’t matter and practical way of living is much indeed,
Awuchick who just for the money.

10. Conclusion
 Here The swamp dweller is a close study of the
pattern of life in the isolated humlets of the African
contryside as well as an existential study of the
simple. They believe in serpent culture. They
perform death rites. Traders from city are coming
their for crocodile skins water plays the role of both
the creator and destroyer in the life of the swamp
dwellers.

11. Work sited
 Soyinka, Wole, Denis Williams, Wole Soyinka, and Wole Soyinka. The
Swamp-Dwellers: The Trials of Brother Jero. the Strong Breed. Ibadan:
Mbari Publications, 1963.
 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Wole Soyinka".
Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Jul. 2020,
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wole-Soyinka. Accessed 27
April 2021.
 Sekoni, Ropo, 'Metaphor as Basis of Form in Soyinka's Drama,’
Research in African Literatures (Austin, Texas), 14,1 (Spring
1983) pp. 45-57.