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| Study Guide | The Gods Are Not to Blame |
|---|---|
| Pages | 24 |
| Price | ₦1,000 |
Description
Study Guide: The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi is a detailed analysis of Ola Rotimi’s play, The Gods Are Not to Blame. The play tells the story of man’s struggle against fate. It pits freewill against fate to demonstrate how the gods use man’s weaknesses as triggers for the manipulation of his destiny. The play is a brilliant adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, given a Yoruba setting and internalized into its cosmos.
The Gods are not to Blame shows how the wheels of fate and the weaknesses of a man conspire against him and set him on a cyclic path of bad fate. Whichever way he is taken or runs, he gets closer and closer to fulfilling his ill-fated destiny of killing his father to marry his mother. His restlessness and hot temper, apparently his flaws, bring him closer to the fulfillment of his destiny even when he thinks he has escaped his ill fate.
This study guide by Literature Padi does a detailed analysis of the play, along the lines of plot summary, themes, dramatic devices, and characterisation.
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