Women's Literature 15 Aphra Behn

that word But that is the wear it Hey what

about of them A savages But instead orinoco is regal

and principled and brave Yeah smart it's In fact the

people are enslaving him who are in the wrong total

upending of values there In fact the ending is what's

really savage right He's dismembered Smoking a pipe is like

a very disturbing scene at the end This idea that

like actually this grand royalty can be found in different

races in different places in order to get this point

across One thing that's really interesting is that after bain

frames this as a true story It's based on some

of her true experiences but it's not strictly true And

yet she says that it that's really interesting as well

because it not only positions This is a true story

But i think it's positions after bain has very much

in conversation with male Writers of our time the frame

narrative was such a common device in this period insisting

to people that fictional narratives were true that's when you

did you're a writer and she's also applying the travel

writing was so hip at the time and you're doing

travel right and again it was mostly men right Of

course because men were the ones that had the right

to kind of traits around europe and asia Africa i'm

collecting stories and bring back all the like exotic things

they found so it's meaningful that she's a starting herself

as a woman of the world Who's had experience who's

been to suriname I think they never really you're critical

consensus about whether she was even there Like her biography

is super fuzzy because she's fictionalized it But she uses

what she claimed for her real experience Yeah and we

know for a fact that she was sent to antwerp

is a spy by king I mean she definitely wass

she had a super exciting life and choose very brilliant

with like some strange unusual goings on difficult situation She

doesn't usually write novels or novellas right She's known as

a playwright you know This is in the sixteen hundreds

right We think of like shakespeare the very end of

the sixteenth century the beauty of the seventeenth century So

she is coming into her own with restoration drama which

is what's Succeeding the kind of shakespearean era and is

very popular on the stage is making her own living

getting herself out of debt writing plays for the stage

that actually being pretty successful What's orinoco about what's a

frame narrative Why does ben say our new Who is

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