The Swamp Dwellers By Wole Soyinka

                 The  Swamp Dwellers

             The play ‘ The Swamp Dwellers’ written by Wole Soyinka. Wole Soyinka has survived to write so much about the African experience is a wonder.

           The Swamp Dwellers is a play of worldwide appeal . it talk about distant rural and urban society, family life, conflict of old and new society, psychological conflict between old and young generations, love for modernity and love for the swamp the supernatural , unfavorable forces of nature and so many problems. He focuses on family ties , love for family hints of love in trivial quarrel between the married in the play.

           The play focuses on the struggle between old and the new ways of life in Africa. The play presents the picture of modern Africa where the wind of change started blowing. And also we can defined the  struggle between human beings and unfavorable forces of nature is also capture in the play. Soyinka says that it’s all about change in Africa.

         The Swamp Dwellers is primarily concerned about social changes. An easy access to shortly abundant all has caused the social changes and has an impact on human relationship in many African countries especially in Nigeria during mid Twentieth Century.

           However, also we can observe that the death of a twin Awachike ? what type of death is it ? natural or symbolic ?

         Wole Soyinka also talk about the tradition and modernity. Tradition and modernity is a liner theory of social change. The two polar opposite in the play. The modernity does not weaken the tradition. Tradition – a –  framework of nation wood. The relation  between tradition and modernity. Both are treated as polar opposites or binaries Makuri  begins to discuss the city,

“It rains them, the city rains them, what do they seek there expect money ?”

             In the very opening scene of the play we can see quarrels between Alu and Makuri. We see the hints of verbal bicker between the two old married Alu and Makuri. Alu seems more impatient than Makuri, and she is constantly nagging in the households. Alu has been waiting for long for her dear son and in her every household. Work she attempts to peep the doorways with great expectations of their sons return. Even the play starts with her question mingled with eagerness further son :

“Alu : can you see him ?”

          However, also we can defined that in the play there are two tragedy. and  also we can see all the characters are absurd and they all are victim of society also the wish of characters going to the individual world. And may be the death of wish in the Alu mind.