TRAGIC VISION IN ELECHI AMADI, CHINUA ACHEBE AND JOHN MUNONYE

📄 Project Abstract

In this thesis an attempt is made to appraise the tragic vision in Elechi Amadi's The Concubine, The Great Ponds and The slave; Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God and John Munonye's The Only Son and obi. The study pools in one single analysis the tragic world view of these writers, showing the nature of the influence of the gods on mankind's fate and the impact of traditional religious beliefs and Christianity on the lives of the Ibo speaking people of Nigeria.. Despite the differences in the methods of approach to these subjects, Amadi and AChebe are agreed on the issue that mankind is predominantly responsible for the tragedies in his life. Munonye shows that the African's psyche gets battered, the consequence of which is a warped image of himself, when he deliberately abandons his traditional religious beliefs for Christianity. Chapter one reviews existing literature on Amadi, Achebe and Munonye. It also puts the study within a social context. An examination of aspec...