![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() comparisons), similes (comparisons with “like” or “as”), or other forms of figurative (pictorial) language in a literary work. This study mainly investigates the imagery and settings, stylistic features in the novel hinging heavily on the theory of cohesion in discourse, and reveals that various stylistic features are used by the novelist to communicate the writer’s thematic concerns Armah has successfully shown in the text above how the political independence of 1957 in Ghana has failed to lessen the yoke of colonialism from the common people in Ghana.Īs distinct from character, theme, and plot, symbol, imagery occurs primarily in language, in the metaphors (i.e. A fiction which ponders on the corruption that pervades Ghana even after independence, the novel reveals interesting societal vices through the hero, The Man. ![]() The theory will then focus on the thematic concern of imagery and settings of the text selected for the study. This work focuses on the theory of Marxism. This research examines imagery and settings in this novel: Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. The text selected for the study, therefore will focus on the concept of imagery and settings as well as its relevance to the novel. This work introduces the major variable in this research topic as well as gives a brief background of the text adopted for critical analysis. ![]()
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