The Villain Archetype in Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Roses and Bullets
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Employing the archetypal theory, this article uses historicocritical, literary, and descriptive methods to examine the issues associated with women being identified as their own common enemies of progress as depicted in Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trafficked (2008) and Roses and Bullets (2014). The paper analyses the daunting statures of villain archetypal figures – human-trafficked businesswomen, wicked husband-relation, the stepmother, and the mother-in-law – and the inherent complications such relationships have with minor women who are not equal to the so-called influential status-classified women (control women). It argues that there exist different individual types that characterise the contrastive characters to the point of equilibrium in all human relationships both in real life and in fiction. Furthermore, it demonstrates that in every culture or society where human beings exist there is always the good, the bad, and the ugly people who work for or against the socio-economic growth of humanity. Hence, the article submits that the villain archetype does not make for the progress of the human race, and so women should cut down on the perceived inherent wicked trait in their relationship with others.
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