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Ornooko
Behn's Ornooko
Question | Answer |
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How does the narrator feel about native inhabitants of Surinam? | We have to respect them because English are outnumbered - HAVE Natives provide the English with goods English would not survive without them *In the beginning she spoke highly of them: admirable, beautiful, (wrong color though), - HARMFUL TO THINK SAME |
How does the narrator feel about slaves in general? | Who she cared about was Ornooko: feels bad for him because he's not supposed to be there People admire that he is a prince - royal |
Not Anti-Slavery | - Narrator only feels bad because Ornooko is royal, not because he is human - Ornooko himself doesn't feel remorse for selling slaves |
Anti-Slavery | - Even if she didn't mean it, it's a positive portrayal of Africans Female Author/Narrator: more soft hearted? but rational? BUT she got the message across and got people thinking: she seems like an airhead in writing yet she was brilliant: intentional? |