ENGL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aphra Behn, Protestantism, Oroonoko
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Aphra behn was the first women to make a living by writing in english. Setting: suriname, south america during the 17th century (1660s) However, in this specific british colony to keep the economy running smoothly the white and the non-white were "nice" to one another according to behn. Themes: freedom and slavery, freedom vs. slavery, racism, betrayal, honor, rebellion, A unknown narrator who tells enormous amount of detail as a side before getting into the story about the protagonist. The narrator goes on to describe oroonoko"s life about how he met and fell in love imoinda when they first locked eyes with each other. They were getting married until the king sent imoinda a royal veil - dismiss another sexual advances from another man - in which she cannot refuse. However, she remained faithful to oroonoko which angered the king. Her decoy name was clemene and oroonoko followed, and his decoy name was.