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The Question and Answer section for The Lion and the Jewel is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The drama "The Lion and the Jewel" by Wole Soyinka is full of irony, which draws attention to the characters' inconsistencies and complexity as well as the sociocultural setting in which it is situated.
The piece contains two noteworthy ironies:
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The narrative is a funny and magical piece of work: full of folk fantasy, folk wisdom. But it's also got its share of folk cruelty. And more than that--its share of hard political reality as well. Written in 1962--when Soyinka was a young man...
