OBIOMA CHIGOZIE’S THE FISHERMEN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PARENTING, AND THE PLACE OF MAN IN THE MULTIVERSE

Abstract

The Fishermen is a dense narrative that exposed the tragedy and meaninglessness of existence. Issues of human will, sanity, insanity, cosmic forces, and parental neglect were all thematized in the work. This paper aimed at seeing whether there was any correlation between a prophecy uttered about somebody and what became of the person in relation to the prophecy; whether the absence of a fatherfigure had any effect on children and whether there were forces outside our control, which unleashed their will on us! This it did using Sunwall’s The Suprarational Grounds of Rationalism, Freud’s Psychoanalysis as well as systems theory. The method of enquiry was largely inductive and deductive; and finally, the paper recommended the need for us to accept the fact that we live in a multi-verse, no longer a universe with the possible implication of varying cosmic influences.