| 词条 | Draft:The Rebels |
| 释义 |
The Rebels is the first short play include in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s collection This Time Tomorrow. Nugui through this work, as he defines the role of the writer in his collection of essays Homecoming, illustrates these villages and their people as communities already having contestation before the arrival of colonialism. CharactersNguru, Father Charles, His son Mary, Charles’ Girlfriend Chief, Father of Mumbi A Stranger Elders of the Village PlotThe play opens in a courtyard with a stranger and a village elder in conversation about the state of their respective homes. The stranger mentions the night before where the animals of the village were noisily uneasy. The elder wards off the bad omens the stranger has told him, because today is a good day. The Chief’s educated son, Charles, is returning home today from studying in Uganda. As a surprise, they, his father and the village elders, have arranged a wife, the Chief's daughter, Mumbi, for him. The stranger questions if the son will take the wife willingly, and the elder confirms that he knows the boy and he will obey the traditions of the village despite the culture and customs of the white colonizers that he has been learning from. Charles’ Father, Nguru, is highly respected in the village and the boy would never disobey him. At the mention of Nguru’s name, the stranger questions if he knows this “self-made” man. The elder puzzled by the stranger asks the stranger how he would know Nguru. The stranger explains that he used to know a boy named Nguru that left his village, Murang’a, under a curse because he disobeyed his father and married a girl with thahu. Then when he was summoned to his father’s deathbed he would not come. This means that since Nguru disobeyed his father his own children will disobey him. This leaves the elder dismayed and he prays that the curse does not threaten Nguru’s great house. Then more elders of the tribe as well as Nguru enter the courtyard. Nguru welcomes them to his home and the men chat about the young wife and Nguru’s fortune. Then Charles arrives with Mary, the wife he has chosen. They dislike her because she is not a woman from their tribe, and Nguru tells him that they have found him a wife. He refuses and upsets his father as well as the elders. Charles, battles with his love for Mary, the woman he brought back to marry, and the love for his people. In the end, Mary leaves him because he can't simply just chose her over his village. The woman his tribe wanted him to marry runs away because she does not want to marry a man that is not of the village; He is educated and she is not. Consequently with nothing left Charles leaves. Nguru is then left to wonder if all of this was the cause of his curse. ThahuThahu is defined by the Kenyatta University Institutional Repository, as he consequence of one's action against a prohibition. Meaning it is a system of taboos that are used as a way to organize ethical codes of how one should live life. This functions as the engine of the play. The curse/ Thahu is what characterizes Charles, Mumbi, and Nguru as rebels because they disobey the morals and obligations of their tradition.{{AFC submission|t||ts=20190227023833|u=THEA-UT718|ns=118|demo=}}ReferencesLydia. “The Agikuyu Concept of THAHU and Its Bearing on the Biblical Concept of Sin.” Repository Home, Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 30 May 2012Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa. This Time Tomorrow . Kenya Literature Bureau , 1970. |
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