Unveiling the Issue of Love in Chinua Achebe’s and Buchi Emecheta’s Novels
Abstract
This paper deals with love issue and probes its manifestations in different spheres through characters in Chinua Achebe’s and Buchi Emecheta’s novels. Drawing from the sociological and psychological approaches, it aims at investigating the different love evidences as contextualized in the selected works. The exploration of these novels reveals that both authors consider love as one the important intrinsic worth values that a person should embody and share for a harmonious societal life. Indeed, they infer that the meaning of love depends on the importance one may grant according to assigned purpose and, as such varies from one character to another. Hence, the current study highlights two aspects of love: its platonic and erotic dimensions from which both writers have approached love issue.