CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION1.1 PURPOSE OF STUDYThis study examines the roles and /life style of females characters as minor characters in Benin oral narrative. It appreciates the strengths; examine the weakness, and points out the predicaments that these historical Benin women went through.This study attempts an inquiry into the nature and roles of Benin women, and women at large in oral narratives. “Akporobaro in page (535) of his book asked a question “females are often presented as evil or wicked in oral literature ,Is this fair to women’s character?” this study aims at answering the question and debunking the idea that all female characters in every oral narrative is bad.The main purpose of my writing his essay is contribute my quota in saving the Benin oral narrative from going into extinction. Many years ago, there was something called moon light tales, where parents, children and oral narrators will seat together and share stories about legends, wicked people and heroes. This story were often to teach moral lesson and to enlighten them of their past in order to know why the present is the way it is, and to understand the future.I have chosen to write this essay because i discovered that some of the tale are already forgotten, because stories are no longer being told as they were in the past, but there are still many persons who want to read them, especially little children who like o hear and tell stories. The order is changing there are no more evening tales, if we do not document his tales now they would certainly be forgotten soon Scope of StudyThis project wok shows that women constitute an indispensable force in the social, economic and political life of the society. In any story pertaining to men, women are always there either as the agents that makes him succeed and better or as the agents that pulls them down.

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