(7)
it is indeed n irony that jack, whom Lady Bracknel despises because of his poor background, eventually turns out to be her nephew, thus transforming to a rich background. Similarly, Lady Bracknel, whom jack hates so much and criticizes, turn out to be his aunt. It is equally an irony that jack the child lost twenty-eight years ago in a bag turns out to be in the custody of the same bag in which he got lost, thereby solving the riddle of his loss
(1)
The blinkards originates during the colonial period during the time in which the urge to become more Europeanized than the Europeans dawned on educated Africans who had travelled abroad in search of the proverbial greener pastures. As they returned, they look at African culture as been orthodox, archaic, and outdated. This their attitude leads to a kind of socio - cultural crises, leading to most people imitating English way of life, thought, feeling, attitude, phonetics, religion and culture.(10)
The poetic personal presented his expenseses as a blackman when he narrated his ordeal among the people of the country.
In line 1, stanza 1, he said he lived among the people who respected him, who related with him cordially and treated him with him cordially and treated him with respect and maturity.
However, the advent of the white man/Asian into the picture changes the situation of things.
He was philosophical about how the wind of life can blow one off course to the extent that one may not find his bearing again.
He became paron in the hands of the superior foces,that is, the whiteman/Asian
His experience at the marketsymbolize how life can be unpredictable and unpalatable to a black man,