Analyze Sidi's attitude towards bride price Or why does Sidi refuse to marry Lakunle without the bride price Bride Price is money or gifts a groom pays to the bride bride s family to marry her It is an important tradition in the village of Ilujinle where Soyinka s play The Lion and the Jewel is set Sidi does not want to marry Lakunle without the bride price because she thinks marrying without the bride price would make her cheap and worthless in the village The bride price is a matter of pride for women in the village Women are valued by paying the bride price Lakunle the schoolteacher does not like this tradition He believes the bride price is old-fashioned He loves Sidi but refuses to pay her bride price He calls it savage and thinks it treats women like property Lakunle thinks paying bride-price for a wife is