Abstract
In the romantic view of the subject of “Maturation” which is
the journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood, that journey Geoffrey
Hartman calls a “Dangerous passageway” with the central feature of
self-consciousness which is occasioned by knowledge of self and plagued by “maladies”;
or “strong disease”, and “an endemic” which is central in romantic thoughts is
projected by Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and is the hunt of this research.
Adichie can discuss the journey from childhood to maturation; in that, she
expresses the perils of childhood; which is embodied by the deep
self-consciousness that covered her heroine who had to endure the perils of
childhood and later the maladies of the mind, in undergoing the dangerous passageways
to the place of freedom, a freedom to be, to create her destiny. Adichie
destroys all impediments that would have prevented her heroine from reaching
the goal of absolute freedom which can only be achieved by the romantic mind.
Keywords: Dangerous, Maturation, Perils, Passageways, Self-consciousness
DOI: 10.36349/zamijoh.2023.v02i02.009
author/ Rebecca Kenseh Daniel Irany & Patience Diah Peter
journal/Zamfara IJOH Vol. 2, Issue 2
