ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Oroonoko, Noble Savage
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I ought to tell you, that the christians never buy any slaves but they give. "em some name of their own, their native ones being likely very barbarous, and hard to pronounce; so that mr. trefry gave oroonoko that of caesar; . Compare him to figures in the western culture. For the future i must call oroonoko caesar . Deals with event happening in behn"s time. Behn has an agenda and in what way she uses him to further her political agenda. The year when oroonoko was published, was the glorious revolution (pg 1234) Not the political foremost in beh"s mind. James 1 was a prince that deprived her right. Men was born free and everywhere he is in chain. Chain is a metaphor for society, civilization, institution, We are born virtuous and corrupted us by civilization.
