Why did Caryl Churchill name the play “Top Girls?”

                 I believe that Caryl Churchill name the play Top Girls because, it talks about women that have to live a man life in orther to success in this man world. Is about women living like a man to follow their dreams, to acomplish their goals, to be known in the world not because their women but because they are strong women ‘TOP GIRLS’, that did the same things that man do but as women. In my personal opinion im very happy that in the world that were living right now women have more participation in society. Also that women voices are heard today.

what is the relationship between love and money in the play.

First the gods came out looking for a good soul that will lgive them hospitality for a night, as they found shen te they gave her money which she used to buy the tobacco shop. Second, because she was so good and love to help others she let the people to come to stay in the shop. Also, the money and love came tigether when the elderly couple lend shen te the money for the rent. Moreover Shen Te tried to sell the shop, to raise the money for her love the pilot, who didn’t love her but wanted her money.  The barber Shu Fu offers her a check and his barracks so that she might pay off her debts and house the homeless people around her.

describe your emotional response to the good woman of zeschuan

The Good Woman of Sezchuan is a play about a prostitute name shen te who tried to live her life serving to others, which is the way that the gods like it, but also without letting people abused her goodness. For this reason is that she is forced to invent an alter ego name shui ta to protect her. As a reader I don’t feel any emotion toward The Good Woman Of Zsechuan, because something bad was about to happen to her her alter ego step up to save her, also I think she played both roles pretty good.

what is your opinion of helmers reaction to Nora's confession?

            I believe he exaggerated because, he didn’t even care about the reasons she had to do what she did, all he worried  was about  what people was going to think aboout him when they found out what Nora did. Also I think Helmer was very selfished, that all that matter to him was himself.  He treadted Nora like a doll all the time and he never paid attention to the children. Moreover, he insulteda and curse Nora out, and she didn’t even tried to defend herself because what she had done she did it for love to save Helmer’s live.  

why is it called a solid home

      Is called A SOLID HOME because that’s what the characters in this play wanted a solid home. A place to be with their love ones where they could be all together and be happy with no worries. A stable place for them , to be with the ones that left early and the ones that have not leave yet. The family are in a crypt where their waiting for judgment day , the day they gonna go to a better place to be happy. this was a type of family that was broken up early because one of he sisters die when she was only 5 and from there the sadness of this family started.

DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN

YORUBA. a member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria. Yoruba people are one of the largest ethno-linguistic or ethnic groups in west Africa. The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language.

BRITISH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION  comprised the dominions,colonies,protectorates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-quarter of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 33,700,000 km² (13,012,000 sq mi), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.

NIGERIA Nigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The lower course of the Niger River flows south through the western part of the country into the Gulf of Guinea. Swamps and mangrove forests border the southern coast; inland are hardwood forests. Multiparty government transitioning from military to civilian rule. The first inhabitants of what is now Nigeria were thought to have been the Nok people (500 BC –c. AD 200). The Kanuri, Hausa, and Fulani peoples subsequently migrated there. Islam was introduced in the 13th century, and the empire of Kanem controlled the area from the end of the 11th century to the 14th. The Fulani empire ruled the region from the beginning of the 19th century until the British annexed Lagos in 1851 and seized control of the rest of the region by 1886. It formally became the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914.

WOLE SOYINKA Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and critic, first black African who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Soyinka has been imprisoned several times for his criticism of the government. From the 1970s he has lived long periods in exile. Soyinka's plays range from comedy to tragedy, and from political satire to the theatre of the absurd. He has combined influences from Western traditions with African myth, legends and folklore, and such techniques as singing and drumming. Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, southwestern Nigeria, which was then a British colony. The Soyinkas were members of the Yoruba tribe.

PROVERB  A short, popular saying that expresses some practical truth or illuminating thought about everyday life. 

  is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim. If a proverb is distinguished by particularly good phrasing, it may be known as an aphorism.

Proverbs are often borrowed from similar languages and cultures, and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the Bible (Book of Proverbs) and medieval Latin have played a considerable role in distributing proverbs across Europe, although almost every culture has examples of its own.

 

compare and contrast simon pilkings and elesin oba

     elesin oba was the king horseman. he was powerful and people respected him because he was gonna died to be with the king that was already dead. elesin was a man that follows the rituals of his religion. on the other hand simon pilkings the district officer. he's british and christian is the authority of the city and does not believe and rituals and because of this he believed that elesin is commiting suicide insted of doing a religious act. Elesin is a man that respect religion and simon pilkings doesn't give importance to it.