![]() ![]() While the narrator abhors how Oroonoko is treated, she never admits that she has a problem with the institution of slavery itself-the main injustice she decries is that a natural king like Oroonoko should be treated so disrespectfully. While she highly esteems Oroonoko, there is a sense that he is the exception, not the rule, when it comes to African. She sees these “natives” as close descendants of Adam and Eve before the Fall of Man, but her opinions toward black Africans seems to be a bit murkier. For the most part, the narrator is open-minded (for her time) and not entirely bigoted in her opinions of the native peoples of the European colonies. Almost the whole of Oroonoko is told in the narrator’s voice and from her perspective. ![]() The narrator is a female Englishwoman, and possibly the direct voice of the author, Aphra Behn, who lived in Suriname for a while and may have had similar experiences to the narrator. ![]()
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