This debatative issue has given rise to certain discusses which of course still stands within the duo argumentative… In fact it has escalated so much that these arguments have gone beyond the reach of the Secondary school students as it is now raised in certain courses, for the discuss in the Universities mostly within the English and Literary Scholars, Theatrical Critics, etc. On one part, we have those attesting to their supposedly facts that the gods are to blame while on the other, we have persons swearing on their fathers grave that Man indeed is to blame as they use Gbonka and Alaka as accomplices to the crime. While doing my research on this, I discovered that two parts have emerged. The fourth chapter will deal with the similarities and the contrasts in the plays and will also serve as the conclusion.OLA ROTIMI FAILED IN THE CRAFTING OF HIS PLAY “THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME”įor quite an age, many have faced questions as to whether the gods are to blame or man is to blame in Ola Rotimi’s play, “The Gods Are Not To Blame.” In fact in Secondary schools in Nigeria and Africa, this question is usually used to set a division between the students as to who is to blame.

Each chapter will include a brief sketch of the authors life, a resume of the plays, and the development of major and minor characters. The second and third chapters deal with the plays of each playwright: Oedipe by Andre Gide and The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi. This chapter will also present references, theses and other critical works written on the plays in question. The first chapter serves as an introduction, which deals with the origin of the Oedipus theme and some of the major writers who helped to popularize it. Through this comparison, the author wishes to show that each playwright presents Oedipus as a classic, which transcends cultural boundaries, thus making Sophocles drama a classic work in world literature. The principal aim is to compare these two plays taken from different cultures, in an effort to show that they both have a common originSophocles Oedipus the King.

This study is a critical analysis of these two dramatic texts, which have been reworked from fifth century Greek tragedy. A comparative analysis of Andre Gide's Oedipe and Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame, 2000Īlthough there have been numerous and varied treatments of Oedipus throughout the ages, there is to date no detailed analytical study of myth based on Andre Gides Oedine and Ola Rotimis The Gods Are Not to Blame.

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