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  • Story Of Oroonoko And Imoinda
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    I. The story of Oroonoko was one of great passion and loyalty. The story of Oroonoko and Imoinda began with him approaching her claiming his undying love for her. That she was the one and only that he would ever need. Only she would suffice in his heart. Throughout the story Oroonoko exhibits great power, strength and control. A love that started out as beautiful and innocent and ended with that same beautiful innocence. Her passionate descriptions of their emotions intensifies the awful ending....
  • Narrator Of Oroonoko
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    Oroonoko In Oroonoko by Aphra Behn the narrator is also a participant in the action of the story. Behn uses the first person to tell the story however; she and the narrator exist as two separate entities. The narrator of Oroonoko is not important so much as a catalyst to the action of the story but for her relationship to Oroonoko, her ability to tell his story and her representation of colonial slave trade. The narrator's main role is that a person attempting to make the audience or readers vie...
  • Oroonoko And Imoinda's Suffering Behn
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    Oroonoko's Slavery Problem: An Interpretation Aphra Behn's seventeenth century tale of a noble African prince's tragic fall to slavery, Oroonoko, has often been cited as a major antislavery work. Under close examination, however, Oroonoko tells a more complex story. The volatile cultural, moral, and religious crosscurrents that Behn finds surrounding her manifest themselves in the forms of narrative equivocality and intermittent satire in Oroonoko. Throughout the text, she seemingly possesses a ...
  • Aphra Behns Oroonoko
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    In Aphra Behns Oroonoko, the author expresses her views on a African American slave openly and passionately, which in the Seventeenth century was unsuited for a person, let alone a woman, to do. By establishing the story from a first person account there becomes a juxtaposition of both author and character. By doing so the reader is able to feel more passion and anguish towards Oroonoko rather than through some fictional fable. Throughout the story Behn is also taking a stand for womens freedom ...
  • Slavery Of Their Own In Behn's Time
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    Oroonoko, The Royal Slave is a unique story for it's time in part due to the fact that it is told from a woman's point of view. It is unusual to imagine women of her time (circa 1640-1689) to have traveled as extensively as the author A phra Behn it seems must have traveled in order to describe so many diverse customs, landscapes and people. We hear the distinct female voice both in the story's construction and through the narrator's voice which is that of Behn herself. In the story Behn says of...

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