Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave Sparknotes

Oroonoko or The Royal Slave shows the cruelty of slavery. It opened the eyes of many people to the horrors of what was going on around them. Oroonoko impacted many people’s views on slavery and helped define future views of enslavement. This paper will discuss how Oroonoko impacted my understanding of our contemporary world better. Oroonoko was a royal prince that was captured and forced into slavery. Throughout the story, he is lead on to believe that he will be granted his freedom and he never receives it. This story helped showed the horrors that some slaves endured during their enslavement. It helped me understand the cruelty and abusement the slaves endured during those horrible times. Oroonoko was a royal general, waiting to be king and yet he gets kidnapped and sold into slavery. He goes from living a lavish life to a life filled with misery from the European culture. This story allowed me to see into the views of European culture. It helped me understand how it opened the eyes of the people during the time. The slaves endured a life they did not deserve and Imoinda, a pure soul, did not deserve to die. This story helped me realize why our contemporary world has so much hatred towards enslavement. It is a cruel and unjust thing to do to a human being.
Each slave was given a name of a great roman leader in a way to mock the slaves. This showed that even though the slaves were named after great, noble people, the slaves would never amount to greatness. This was a cruel action. The slaves were regular human beings and they did not deserve the treatment they received. This story enlightened me to why the contemporary world has fought so hard for the freedom of slaves. Wars and struggles have occurred over this issue and still to this day we have violence against discrimination. This story helped to open my eyes to the hatred African Americans endured, even those of royal