i need to give kudos to Kola Rotimi for writing this wonderful play, we all know about the gods are not blame. The play strongly drives African belief in destiny and human attempt to turn it around. Gbonka, the king’s ward tried to re-write the destiny of King Adetugba’s new born baby, who should have being killed at birth to avert the... the future of killing his father and marrying his mother by abandoning him in the bush for someone to pick up. the baby grew up, killed his father and married his mother, he later did what they tried to avert. when they found out, the mother killed herself, the son removed his eyes and thenleft the village with his children, this is a very sad story. the question now is, Are the gods to blame? to me i believe they are to blame, because why should they give them a cursed child when the gods know that the parents will have to kill the child? i cant blame them for not killing the baby, i think it would have been a heartless thing to do, but look at what happened just because they did not kill the baby. i know different people have different opinions about this , so are the gods to blame?
U r right 2 blame d gods 4 ur reason but look @ it 4rm ds angle.
ReplyDeleteMayb if he lived with his parent 4rm birth, dat might v made him 2 love,care,recognize & v a family feeling 4 dem. & would change hs destiny completely.
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