MEG-08 IMPORTANT QUESTION OF Block-3 A Dance of Forests Wole Soyinka

Block-3 A Dance of Forests Wole Soyinka

NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS  FOR MEG –08
Programme: MEG

1. What is the significance of Demoke trying to rescue the Half-Child and of
   climbing the totem pole?
2. Why is Nigeria an “artificial creation”?
3. What sort of political statement is Soyinka making in A Dance of the Forests
   which, as you know, was performed on the occasion of Nigeria’s
   independence?
4. What, according to Soyinka, is the link between Yoruba religion and Yoruba,
   tragedy?
5. What are the ways in which Soyinka’s play departs from western dramatic
   tradition and convention?

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