let me go. I long to see him thwarted… Leave it to me. He will never suspect you of deceit.”(Soyinka 32)Is Sidi just a naïve village girl with pride and a huge ego?
Sidi is a determined being with faults. Sidi is a young beautiful lady. Sidi`s appearance is simple yet very attractive. She is a “slim girl with plaited her”(Soyinka 3) , with “velvet skin” (Soyinka 21). She does not put much effort in her looks but nevertheless she still looks pretty. Wole Soyinka describes her as “A true village belle”(Soyinka 3).She brags about the texture of her skin to Lakunle and Sadiku (an old woman who is also the first wife to Baroka). Her beauty makes Sidi has an influence on her character as it gives her an exaggerated sense of self-importance. When she is offered the chance for her photograph to be on the front cover of a popular magazine, she turns into a very vain person and describes herself in hyperbolic terms such as “… beauty beyond the dreams of a goddess”(Soyinka 11). She further states “Hurray! I`m beautiful” (Soyinka 13), “My name is Sidi, and I am beautiful” (Soyinka 20) The depth of Sidi`s pride about her beauty is stressed by her repeatedly telling people that she is beautiful. This shows that Wole Soyinka`s portrayal of his female …show more content…
“Segi (very gently): You couldn`t, even if you wanted. Not here.” (Soyinka 72)“Most men in Kongi`s harvest fear Segi for this character trait including The Oba. In an interview, Soyinka gives reason for Oba`s fear of Segi,“…The Oba would be afraid of women like Segi, definitely because she doesn`t conform to the kind he would keep in his harem. So it is not surprising that he would be frightened of her …She just is not the kind of woman he is accustomed to. (Gibbs 101)…”(Asian Journal of English and Linguistics ( ISSN: 2347-2383)) African woman usually take orders from their spouses or any prominent male figure in their lives but Segi does
Sidi is a determined being with faults. Sidi is a young beautiful lady. Sidi`s appearance is simple yet very attractive. She is a “slim girl with plaited her”(Soyinka 3) , with “velvet skin” (Soyinka 21). She does not put much effort in her looks but nevertheless she still looks pretty. Wole Soyinka describes her as “A true village belle”(Soyinka 3).She brags about the texture of her skin to Lakunle and Sadiku (an old woman who is also the first wife to Baroka). Her beauty makes Sidi has an influence on her character as it gives her an exaggerated sense of self-importance. When she is offered the chance for her photograph to be on the front cover of a popular magazine, she turns into a very vain person and describes herself in hyperbolic terms such as “… beauty beyond the dreams of a goddess”(Soyinka 11). She further states “Hurray! I`m beautiful” (Soyinka 13), “My name is Sidi, and I am beautiful” (Soyinka 20) The depth of Sidi`s pride about her beauty is stressed by her repeatedly telling people that she is beautiful. This shows that Wole Soyinka`s portrayal of his female …show more content…
“Segi (very gently): You couldn`t, even if you wanted. Not here.” (Soyinka 72)“Most men in Kongi`s harvest fear Segi for this character trait including The Oba. In an interview, Soyinka gives reason for Oba`s fear of Segi,“…The Oba would be afraid of women like Segi, definitely because she doesn`t conform to the kind he would keep in his harem. So it is not surprising that he would be frightened of her …She just is not the kind of woman he is accustomed to. (Gibbs 101)…”(Asian Journal of English and Linguistics ( ISSN: 2347-2383)) African woman usually take orders from their spouses or any prominent male figure in their lives but Segi does