EN 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Aphra Behn, Guana Island, Oroonoko
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First person narrator, internal to the text. Though it speaks of oroonoko in the third person constantly, in which the narrative is centered. Hero: the person central to the text. Macrocosmic scale: sacrifice for greater society or humanity. Not the same has a protagonist; the protagonist can be an anti-hero - vicious and cowardly. A hero is not always the name of the book. Tends to be viewed as masculine writing. Logic is not anti-slavery: cowards deserve to be slaves. Narrator: a character who is like aphra behn. Similar to chaucer in that she participates in the text. The african setting is basically guana: slavery hub. We wouldn"t think of as utopian: both are subject to heat. There cannot be a real utopia; an ideal rather than a real. A good place, and also not a place; garden of eden. Used first in the book utopia: the hero of the book is a place.
