er Elesin's son, Olunde, who is studying medicine in London while Pilkings pays his fees. Olunde is like a son to Pilkings humself, and he wants to spare him the grief that would come with his father's death.
And so Pilkings does stop the ceremony - but in interjecting himself into a place that he does not belong and into the lives of people whom he may love but does not understand - he brings about true tragedy. Elesin dies anyway, and Olunde must commit suicide himself to restore the ordered world between humans and gods and that Pilkings has harmed. In the end, everyone hands are bloodied.
The most obvious Western model of playmaking that this play follows is Aristotle's firm dictates on the three unities of space, time, and action. The tragedy of the play occurs, if we follow this model, because Pilkings breaks these unities. Aristotl
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