Absurdity of Love in Romantic Relationships in The Name of Our Fathers and a Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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2023-02
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
the absurdity of love in thc.mm'anlic relationships in /n the
Name of our Fathers and A Sunday at the pool in Kigali and the expression of
deimmjc by the characters involved. It endeavours to analyse two major ideas,
absurdity and romance in these primary texts. There is a convergence between
!ove and romance semantically, thus this study employs the two words
interchangeably — to convey the same meaning. Absurdity, as a phenomenon, is
discussed in two sections as a progressive theory: absurdity in the novel as a genre
and absurdity of love in these two primary texts. On romance, the study discusses
the characteristics of romance novels in relation to absurdity and the two texts
studied in order to distinguish areas of conformity or non-conformity thereof.
Another integral aspect in this study is the comparison of the storyline of romance
novels to those of the two works studied in reference to absurdity and conformity.
The study examines in the two novels: the conformity of the two novels to the
conventions of the characteristics and steps of the storyline of romance novels, the
marriage stage as the major indicator of the absurdity of romantic relationships in
the two novels under study and the aspects of absurdity in the two novels. The
study uses the theory of the absurd to analyse the parallel romantic relationships
in the two primary texts. The study employs a qualitative research methodology
with textual analysis as the major method of data collection, analysis, and
interpretation. Primary data is drawn through close reading of the two primary
texts. The data collected from the two primary texts was classified in relation to
the study’s anticipated chapters. Secondary data was collected from related books,
projects, theses, critics, scholarly journals from both print and the Internet. In the
that include: that the marriage summative chapter, the study made several findings
stage is the major indicator of absurdity in the romantic relationships, that the
characteristics in the romantic relationships largely conformed to the
characteristics of romance novels, that the romantic relationships in the two
novels did not follow the formula of romantic novels and other aspects of
absurdity in the romantic relationships. Areas of fun.her study, emanating from
the findings, are suggested. It is expected that thls_ research develops new
perspectives in the area of romance and hence contribute to the already vast
knowledge in the field of the absurdity romantic love.