Her beauty endears her to the village men and of course, the visiting stranger. Sidi is the centre of attraction in the play. The Lion and the Jewel portrays the women world as one that can be easily manipulated by the male folks. Sidi for one is influenced by Lakunle’s worldview and later manipulated by the wily village head, Baroka. This dialogue is a reference to the male dominant African society and the role of second fiddle women play in the traditional African society.Īnother pointer to the theme of male chauvinism is rooted in how the women are manipulated by the men in the text. With a child strapped to her back?” The Lion and the Jewel He backs his claim with the fact that it has been scientifically proven that “women have a smaller brain than men” hence, “they are called the weaker sex”. He claims that Sidi, as a woman, has a smaller brain than his. We first catch a glimpse of this in the dialogue between Lakunle and Sidi in which the former attributes the latter’s inability to comprehend what he is saying to the generic inferiority of women. The theme of male chauvinism is clearly portrayed in Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel. This is a belief in the innate superiority of men over women.
Some of the themes in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel include male chauvinism, marriage and love, deceit, modernity versus tradition, and, virility and cowardice.
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