Sidi claims that she is “young and brimming” while Baroka is “spent” she is “the twinkle of a jewel” and Baroka has “the hind-quarters of a lion”.

However, when Sadiku offered her Baroka’s offer Sidi is adamantly against the idea, insisting on her newly-discovered significance and recognition of her beauty during the process. She even has a feeling of pride when she is given more acceptance and gains more attention by virtue of her appearance. We can infer this from the way she reveled in the humiliation of Baroka and his posh office when his photo was positioned side-by-side in the magazine alongside the latrine of the village. The term “plot twist” refers to a story twist as a literary device that causes a dramatic alteration in the plot or the expected result of the plot of the fiction work.īased on the chronological arrangement of the events of The Lion and the Jewel, no one would have believed that Sidi would marry Baroka. This means that there is one brief scene within The Lion and the Jewel. This improvisation is an obvious example of an impromptu story within the narrative or, more specifically, a play within the context of a drama.

Sidi is simply Sidi and Baroka is Baroka. Lakunle is forced to play his role as the Stranger since he seems like the wandering Stranger in his mannerisms. The girls, for their own, play a shifty They first act as the vehicle for the Stranger, and later as the villager.

The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka