This document compares and contrasts the characters of Igwezu and Awuchike from a Yoruba myth. Igwezu represents tradition and lives in the village, trying to bring life back to it after failing. He appears in the story. Awuchike represents modernization, lives in the city where he is successful, but does not care about his village and never returns or appears in the story, only being discussed. Igwezu is idealized as wanting to help his family and village, while Awuchike created his own world and is considered dead to his ancestral home.

1. Topic: Igwezu And Awuchike
as a pollar opposites
Name : Shabana. M. Khalani
Roll no. 28
Paper no. 14. The African
Literature
Sem: IV
M.K.B.U

2. As a Character
Igwezu
Present
Absent
Awuchike
In City
In Village

3. Igwezu Awuchike
Youruba
Myth
In city
Mort
ality
Ogun
King
Sango
Igwezu

4. Igwezu Awuchike
Vladimir
A little thoughtful
Stay with parents
Estragon
Material Pleasure
Leaves for the city

5. Igwezu Awuchike
 He stands for tradition
 He considered as
failure and want to
bring life in the village
 He comes back.
 At the end of the play ,
he left the play.
 He stands for
modernization
 He is successful and
not have any care for
his village.
 He never comes back to
the village
 He never appear in the
play as human being, it
is all the talk about him.

6. Igwezu Awuchike
 Ideal Son for
Swamps.
 Wants to do
something for family
and villagers.
 “nothing rescues man
(ancestral, living or
unborn) from loss of
self within this abyss
but a titanic resolution
of the will”
 Has not own any
title.
Created his own
world and live in it.
 “Awuchike is dead
to you and to this
house. Let us not
raise his ghost”