Exploring Contemporary Art Performance as a Didactic Mode to Mirror Human Society: Focus on the Drama Film “Mugisha”
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Abstract
Art cannot be distanced from society. Contemporary art performance reflects human action over his fellow human being(s). In this paper, the researcher demonstrates that art is a didactic tool to society as produced by society about society for society. How filmmakers use the past and present society to comment on contemporary human situations is an important concern in this paper. The researcher uses the Drama movie “Mugisha” to demonstrate how in the current world challenges and hardships are good trainers in human life. The idea of “one’s future shaped by his hope but not his/her hurts” and the belief that “Patience is bitter but bears sweet fruits” is well illustrated in the present study. Using descriptive literary analysis of characters, particularly the protagonist and antagonists, it is revealed that the story of Mugisha is a message film which conveys the quest theme reflected by human beings’ life hurdles. The story conveys the message of conflicts and hatred among relatives, heroism and triumph resulting from long suffering; patience and fortitude, the culture of coming to one’s help in trouble and so forth. It was demonstrated that one’s destiny cannot be altered by the power of human beings, thus the true contextual meaning of the common aphorism that “Man proposes and God disposes”.
- Art performance
- boon
- contemporary society
- challenges
- didactic
- fortitude
- hope
- Mugisha
- patience
- protagonist
- quest.
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