The Role of Intellectuals Figures in Ngugi’s Petals of Blood
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This research aims at analyzing and showing the role of intellectuals figures in Ngugi’s Petals of Blood. It tries to explore the role of intellectuals figures in protesting the economic and political leadership crisis of Kenyan society. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter includes introduction and it tries to give information about the back ground of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, scope of the study, significance, method, organization and limitation of the study of the study. The second chapter is review of related literature. It contains related works, definition of important terms and related concepts in line with the aim of the research. The third chapter is the analysis and interpretation of the novel through characterization. This analysis tries to find what Ngugi’s intellectuals figures are and their role in protesting the economic and political problems of their society. To show the role of intellectuals figures in Ngugi’s Petals of Blood, the study attempts to make analysis by taking some extracts from the novel understudy. For instance, the intellectuals figures found in this novel are Munira, Karega, Wanja, Abdulla and the lawyer who strongly protest and fight for the issue of economic and political crisis caused by corruption, selfish, imperialism, greedy, murder, lack of law, judges dependency and autocratic ways of leading. These intellectuals figures are dedicated to struggle and scarify their lives for the sake of their freedom, truth and fairness, job opportunity, history and literature, property and land. These intellectuals hope that even if they are arrested and murdered the struggle would go on up to the end of their society’s liberty.
The fourth chapter is the conclusion based on mainly the analysis of the research. The conclusion recapitulates the core findings of the study in the fewest possible way.
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Ngugi’s Petals of Blood