Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, written with dedicated themes of racism, freedom, and slavery, are a vivid representation of the 18th century. During this time, enlightenment was exemplified, and the age saw violent slave trading on a global scale. It is clear to see why such topics...
Virginia Woolf once wrote: 'all women ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.' Mainly working as a playwright, Behn released several works from poetry to prose fiction, chronicling...
Aphra Behn published her book “Oroonoko” in 1688.In the book, the author has casted herself as a participant narrator, who is a narrator that is a part of the story. The author starts off by generally describing the colonized place in west Indies called Surinam...
In all of Aphra Behn's fourteen fictions there has been a notable absence of an explicitly male narrator, instead having some as definitely female and others left as an ambiguity. The technique of a female narrator is one that was uncommon during the hierarchical restoration...