Comparison of Journal of the Plague Year and Oroonoko

Throughout history, slaves are considered animals, regarded as wealth, not human beings. Even Orlookos, a handsome and statue-like prince, became a slave for his race and was corrupt and abused. For racist slave owners, Africans are allowed to get horrific treatment. They are different species, there is not much education and beauty to save them. Vane shows Orlookno's injustice and brutal slavery. Both have little rights and are unjustly judged and abused based on social status, so that the treatment of slaves is comparable to the handling of the poor.

Imoinda, the love for Oroonoko 's life, is a beautiful African woman sold as a slave after Oroonoko tried to help her. When Orlooko meets Imoinda, they will soon fall in love. In her first encounter with her, she explains her beautiful, beautiful black Venus, beautiful, attractive and subtle like her, her real woman for a beautiful aristocrat of our young Mars, And virtue "(Behn, 9). Oroonoko was fascinated by her, asked her to get married soon, and did not hesitate to agree. The tradition of multiple wives in Africa was still popular in this era, but Oroonoko assured Imoinda that he would never accept another wife. In the novel, it is clear that each other's love of Oruoko and Imonida is unconditional. Grandfather Oroonoko's grandfather heard the beautiful rumors of Imoinda, he became hard to make her her lady

Vane's novel awakens women's voices and deserves more recognition in literature. Imoinda is love for Oroonoko's fiction, but this is not all. Ai Molin often shows that she is strong enough to fight Orono, not to fall into a typical obedient women's role as she killed the governor (Behn 68). Imoinda is portrayed as Oroonoko's equality in the workplace; Oroonoko is described as "Mars" (16) and Imoinda as "Beautiful Black Venus" (16). After all, their aggression and the power of beauty are reflected in mythical similarity. At the beginning of the novel, a comparison with Martian and God of War provides a framework for the rise of Orono as a respected warrior, and the relationship between Imoda and divinity is more feminine from the beginning. Binding her appearance to the appearance of a strong man. Venus, love, beauty in Roman mythology