Aphra Behn's Oroonoko as the First Modern Novel

Writing art in the 17th century seemed to be an unknown waters area for women and most adventurous people were considered to have failed. Regardless of quality, women's publications are often ridiculed by male competitors. However, several women prosper in violation of common standards, one of which was Aprha Behn. Virginia Woolf said to Baine: "All women should make the flowers fall into the tomb of Aflavain, because she has won the right to think about them." One of her publications is truly shiny, although she is a successful lady. Oroonoko (1688), a heroic black slave epic story,

Aphra Behn has the same view. As a wife of a slave merchant, it is hard to say that Aphra Behn is opposed to slavery. Her novel Oroonoko is thought to many people by the second novel in English (a love letter between the nobility of Aphra Behn and his sister) and develops mainly in the young African prince Oroonoko and his lover Imoeenda It is a story to do. . King's most important general. In the new caliban, Africans are shown as people of their own culture and hierarchy. However, as the plot shifts from Africa, Orlooko is increasingly becoming an exception to this rule and Africans are generally downgraded to a quiet background. Oroonoko is expressed as an image of a rich man from appealing novels, a solemn existence. He was sold to the captain and led him to be enslaved - but as a slave he was endorsed. Oronoko with the characteristic of Europe is such a king

Oroonoko's claim as "the first British novel" is unsustainable. In addition to defining a novel as a general type of problem, Aphra Behn wrote at least one book novel before Oroonoko. The love letter between the aristocrat and his sister has passed Oroonoko for more than five years. However, Orlooko is one of the specific types of early British novels with linear plots and following the biography model. It is a mixture of drama, reportage and biography, and is easily considered a novel.

Reading Aphra Behn's Oroonoko in the 21st century is a challenging but fun experience. Modern readers have learned from early chronicles and stories about how fiction types develop. In the story, Oroonoko is the prince of Africa who fell in love with Imoinda. Later, his girlfriend was stolen by Orono's grandfather's king. Olónko was subsequently fooled by slavery, but he discovered Imoinda again and then led slave rebellion. After all, Oroonoko and Imoinda died tragically, but modern readers understand the common racial beliefs of Europeans and Caucasians at the time of writing.