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Parliament of Owls Guide Notes
KSh 100
Parliament of Owls guide notes
Content covered
• Introduction
• About the play
• Every act plot summary
• Each act characters and characterization
•Themes
• Each act styles
• Sample essays
Description
Parliament of Owls Guide Notes
ACT 1 CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION
A character is a player in a literary text such as a play.
1. Osogo
A wise male weaver bird, he is synonymous with the lute which he cither plays on stage or reminds us of his presence in the background throughout the play.
He is the first character to appear on stage which underlines his importance in the play. This is hinted by his latent anger after the Waver Massacre. ……………….
ACT 1 STYLISTIC DEVICE
Motif
In literature, a motif is a recurring idea crated by recurring events or ideas which create a pattern that points to an idea that isn’t mentioned, especially one that underscores the symbolic importance of the said idea or event.
When we first meet him, Osogo is ‘perched on a stone…engrossed in his flute’.
This underscoreres his melancholy and despondency, which we later learn stems
from his losing friends during the Weaver Massacre. ……………..
