ACTION, INACTION, AND CONSEQUENCES IN TADE ADEGBINDIN’S RAGE.

Abstract

Literature serves some useful purposes in society. Nigerian literature serves the purpose of constituting an alternative source of information that differs from social scientific analyses for understanding society. Rage, a play by Tade dysbindin, provides useful data on the menace of child abuse, social vices, crime, and homelessness, especially in Nigerian cities. The play vividly interrogates the connection between child abuse and negligence and the horrors of robbery, banditry, kidnaping and terrorism that Nigeria faces. While providing good entertainment and pleasure for readers, Rage offers a deep insight into how literature can shape our understanding of what constitutes good rather than evil in society. The play underscores the insecurity that has pervaded Nigerian society and provides a strong commentary on moral and social vices. Rage laboriously links human actions to their destiny. Therefore, the dramatist believes that by ignoring the realities of child abuse, abandonment and violence, Nigeria has inadvertently forged its own grim fate as these children of the street have grown into the menace confronting the country today. The playwright has lent his voice to this open menace and succeeds in enabling us through the pages of Rage to better grasp the dimensions of violence, upbringing, and social justice in cases of child abuse