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They have eaten the salt of freedom and moved beyond our simple caprices. We must fulfill our appetite by other means, for they do not demand protection any more, but food; but justice. I have no choice, I must respond. We are not ignorant of the ideological leaning of Osofisan in his treatment of socio - cultural issues in his plays. Our preoccupation here is his presentation of the gods as they are in virtually all Nigerian cultural beliefs.

There is hardly any god that can be so unappeasable on the Nigerian soil as presented by Rotimi in his play. The choice of Gbonka by the priest of Ogun to carry out the sentence of the gods on Odewale is unacceptable.

Gbonka is neither an acolyte to Ogun nor an assistant to the Ogun priest. How can he therefore, be entrusted to execute a verdict of the gods, which the priest himself abdicates? Here, Rotimi gives a spiritual assignment to Gbonka a secular staff in the palace.

Peace reigns until one day that a man he had all along known and related with as an uncle calls him a butterfly that thinks himself a bird.

Odewale consults the oracle and he is frightened by the revelation that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Thinking hunter Ogundele and Mobike are his parents, Odewale runs away after making his trusted friend, Alaka swear not to come and look for him till his parents were dead.

One will ordinarily think that because of the trust Odewale and Alaka have for each other, Odewale would have confided in Alaka to tell him his findings. It is such careful use of words that helps to bring out the magic of words. So without his trusted friend Alaka knowing why Odewale is running away from Ijekun Yemoja, Odewale begins a journey, guided by the tyrant vexed gods, to return him to Kutuje for punishment; but after a stopover at Ede.

Odewale gets to his legitimate farm and meets a man harvesting his own labour. The rational African thing to do is for Odewale to report back to the man who gave him the land. The issue of Adetusa, a king, personally going to the farm for harvest, as Rotimi portrays here is another seeming incongruity of action viz avis the status of the king.

Nevertheless, rather than report back to the original owner of the farm who leased it to Odewale, he engages the man in a fight and kills him. With this kind of shock, one would have expected Odewale to rush back to Ijekun Yemoja to see Alaka, or at least send for him and seek advice on what to do. His Return to Kutuje Odewale returns home to Kutuje to meet the entire village and people in crises. The question then is simple. In what capacity is Odewale leading this battle of the Kutuje people?

And with the death of their king, Adetusa, why does Aderopo the Prince not mount the throne of his father and lead the battle, or whoever Aderopo as king would have chosen as "the war leader? That vacuum exists so that Odewale will much later fill it, and by so doing, the gods will be getting closer to venting their final raw anger on him. Me of Ijekun tribe. A few questions can be raised here. Why did this people not break the same tradition at the birth of Odewale when their gods opined he should be killed because of the curse the gods placed on him?

Why did this people putting tradition aside now not even as much as question that same tradition while Odewale was sentenced to death as a baby. Tradition is not static, but dynamic. What a dynamic change that allows a foreigner to occupy the sacred throne of the king of the people. It may be difficult, if not impossible to have, within the context of Nigerian traditional monarchical set ups, to let what Rotimi does here, happen. Take this illustration for instance. He leads them to victory and the king makers in Ife, rubbish the tradition of kingship in the great Ife and crown him as the Oni of Ife.

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Nonetheless, the three plays cover the fate of the royal family of King Oedipus at the city state Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. Sophocles is one of three ancient Greeks tragedy writers, whose works have survived for posterity. Along with Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles wrote over plays, but only seven manuscripts have survived. During his life at Athens, Sophocles competed in over thirty competitions at the festival of Dionysus. He won twenty-four, and never placed lower than second.

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