The document summarizes Wole Soyinka's play "The Swamp Dwellers". It discusses the author Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The play is set in a village and examines themes of human relationships with the environment, abuse of power, wealth and poverty, and the meek. It introduces the major characters and their roles. Key events in the play include Alu and Makuri waiting endlessly for Awuchike to return, and the priest Kadiye abusing his power by stealing sacrifices meant for the swamp god. The beggar represents those in poverty who strive to determine their own fate.

1. Topic: The swamp Dwellers
Themes
Name: Nasim Gaha
Roll no: 20
Enrollment no:- 2069108420190014.
Paper no:-14 ( The African literature)
Year:- 2018-2020
Email-id:- gahanasim786@gmail.com
Submitted to:- S.B. Gardi Deparntment of
English.

2. About Author
• He was a
playwright, poet,
author, teacher and
political activist.
• Wole Soyinka was
Born on 13 July
1934, in Nigeria.
• He received the
Nobel prize for
literature in 1986.

3. About Play
• It is a play
• The Swamp
Written by Wole
Soyinka
• It was Published in
1958.
• The Play’s the
main conflict is
between the old
and the new way of

4. Major Characters
• 1) Alu ( Alu is wife of Makuri.)
• 2) Makuri ( father’s Twin boy igwezu, Awuchike)
• 3)Desala ( The wife of Igwezu )
• 4)The Kadiye ( The only priest of the serpent god or
swamp god)
• 5) A Begger ( The Beggar appears in the story in search of
any land that he can make his own)

5. Major theme of swamp
Dweller
• Human relationship with environment
• Waiting
• Abuse of Power
• Wealth and Poverty
• The Meek

6. Waiting
• Alu and makuri waiting
for Awuchike.
• But he does not come
back in the village.
• Both are waiting till the
end of the play but
Awuchike does not come.
• Same in The waiting for
Godot Vladimir and
Estragon waiting for
Godot but Godot does
not come
• Both the play waiting is
there.

7. Abuse of Power
• Kadiye is the priest of village. So he is the man offers
sacrifices to the Serpent of the Swamp in order to
keep it satiated; this action keeps the villagers' land
from being consumed so that they can grow food to
survive. But, we learn that he is a man who is fat per
the Beggar who hears in his voice that he is well fed
compared to the rest of the villagers. He has been
stealing the offerings of the people, their sacrifices to
the Serpent of the Swamp and consuming them for
himself rather than offering them up to the deity.
And this betrayal is seen clearly by Igwezu who
believes his wife leaving him and his money being
taken is due to the priests wicked consummation of
his worthy sacrifices.

8. Wealth and poverty
• Igwezu and Awuchike
leave the village in order
to find wealth in the city.
• Igwezu’s brother does not
come back in the village.
But Igwezu come back in
the village. Because he
get failure in the city
• In the play People leave
the Village because they
want to earn money.

9. The Meek
• Beggar is blind man and he is good person
• He find land and he want to grow crops in land.
• He is blind but other senesces is powerful
• The beggar is a symbol for the classes that reside
even in great
• The Beggar is a symbol for the classes that reside
even in great poverty, and he represents the will
of a human being to claim their life as their own
creation. That no man shall determine his
position in life, that is up to him

10. Works Cited
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https://www.academia.edu/40688330/The_Human-
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dwellers/study-guide/themes
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11. Thank you