Death and the Kings Horseman and A Grain of Wheat

The following works will draw your attention and playwrights and novelists achieve significant style and dramatic effects by examining the textual part of each part. For comparison, we observe the comparison of the techniques used in the two works. My relaxation was relieved. I am a master of fate. When that time came I saw that I was glossing the feet of my great pioneer as I was dancing a narrow street. My soul is longing. I will not refuse. (Soyinka, October 2002).

In his introduction, Soyinka pointed out that death and the king of the king are based on historical events. Duro Ladipo was a Yoruba playwright written in his native language and wrote the traditional Yoruba play based on the story of Oloi W. (The King is Dead) written by Olori Elesin in 1964. Year may affect Soyinka's own explanation. Yoruba's faith is deity, there are hundreds of spirits and gods called Orisha, each with different strength and meaning. Some of these souls are thought to respond to cosmological phenomena such as world creation and thunder, but other people have more ordinary or routine associations. In addition, Yoruba people believe that the soul of the dead continues to exist, and the great may turn into a god after death. Derek Wright expresses Yoruba's faith as "pragmatism of animism", where phenomena can be explained scientifically and spiritually.

Death and the king of the king are based on a dramatic story of a drama based Soinka, focusing on the role of Elekin in the King's Cavaliers. According to the tradition of Yoruba, the death of the king must accompany death by the king's knight and king's dog and horse ritual. Because the knight's spirit is essential to help the chief's spiritual progress. Otherwise, the spirit of the king will paralyze on Earth and will harm the Yoruba. In the first half of the drama the ceremonial process was recorded, but before the ceremonial process began Eresin sent a fulfilling life lover on the last day of his life. Lastly, local British colonial ruler Simon Pickins intervened and the British authorities considered barbarous and illegal.