ADOTSE AN ICON OF HOPE: A STUDY OF RICHARD MASAGBOR’SLABYRINTHS OF A BEAUTY
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Clement Chukwuka Idegwu
Department of English
College of Education, Agbor, Delta State
Email: idegwucc@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
This article is an attempt to show Masagbor’s exploration of “the vagaries of human life,” (Idegwu, 2009), and how Adotse for instance, is a correspondence between the form and meaning of the virtues which are needed in human life to over come, and win the battles of life. It is also an attempt to explore, and explain how people in power in the various realms of life create myths around their persons and office, to intimidate, and force their subject to remain cowed forever. This paper looks at the challenges the oppressed face, and shows that the possession of virtues such as courage, hope, the power to persist and remain focus or consistent are what the oppressed need to liberate themselves. Hence, the iconicity of Adotse, who personifies these virtues.