But to protect Imoinda from violation and subjugation after his death, he decides to kill her. To avenge his honour, and to express his natural worth, Oroonoko decides to kill Byam. Yet, when the slaves surrender, Oroonoko and the others are punished and whipped. The slaves are hunted down by the military forces and compelled to surrender on deputy governor Byam's promise of amnesty. But after being continuously ignored, he organises a slave revolt. Upon Imoinda's pregnancy, Oroonoko petitions for their return to the homeland. The two lovers are reunited there, under the new Christian names of Caesar and Clemene, even though Imoinda's beauty has attracted the unwanted desires of other slaves and of the Cornish gentleman, Trefry. Both Imoinda and Oroonoko were carried to Surinam, at that time an English colony based on sugarcane plantation in the West Indies. Later, after winning another tribal war, Oroonoko is betrayed and captured by an English captain, who planned to sell him and his men as slaves. The king's guilt, however, leads him to falsely inform Oroonoko that she has been executed, since death was thought to be better than slavery. They are eventually discovered, and because she has lost her virginity, Imoinda is sold as a slave. After unwillingly spending time in the king's harem (the Otan), Imoinda and Oroonoko plan a tryst with the help of the sympathetic Onahal and Aboan. He gives Imoinda the sacred veil, thus commanding her to become one of his wives, even though she was already married to Oroonoko. The king, too, falls in love with Imoinda. "Coromantee people" were Akan slaves brought from present-day Ghana, a polyglot band known for their rebellious nature. SUMMARY:The Coromantin grandson of an African king, Prince Oroonoko, falls in love with Imoinda, the daughter of that king's top general. Arthur is saved by the gang and they all leave Magreathea on the Heart of Gold, heading to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe for some food. However, just before the question was found, descendants of the computer's creators, two mice, want to take Arthur's brain to look for the answer, since he was on Earth just before it was blown up. The computer, after telling the waiting crowd that the answer was 42, commissioned the building of Earth in order to search for the actual question. The computer was built by the inhabitants to find the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Arthur meets a guy by the name of Slartibartfast who tells him that the planet was home to the most intelligent computer of all time. Once again, the improbability drive saves them, and they land on the planet and start to explore.
The group do get to Magrathea and are attacked by an ancient weapons system. Zaphod and Trillian are using it to try to find Magrathea, which (according to legend) was once the richest planet in the galaxies.
This ship runs on an improbability drive, meaning that when a button is pushed, the most improbable thing will happen. Zaphod and his earthling girlfriend have stolen a spaceship called the Heart of Gold. Ford and Arthur are blasted into space to be picked up by Ford's cousin Zaphod Beeblebox. Unfortunately, the Vogons don't like anyone, and are particularly adverse to hitchhikers. Ford helps Arthur to escape with him on a Vogon ship. Arthur's friend Ford Prefect comes along and tells Arthur three important things: 1) He, Ford, is an alien from Beetlegeuse 2) He, Ford, is a writer for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and 3) The Earth is about to be destroyed. This is due to occur in order to create room for a motorway bypass. SUMMARY: Arthur Dent faces the bulldozing of his house. It was during the Classical period and its accompanying cultural Enlightenment that the novel first developed as a literary genre. She never loses sight of propriety, economic practicalities, and perspective, as when she reminds Marianne (impulsive, independent) that their mother would not be able to afford a pet horse or that it is indecorous for her to go alone with Willoughby to Allenham. Elinor represents the characteristics associated with eighteenth-century neo-classicism, including rationality, insight, judgment, moderation, and balance. CONTEXT: Austen wrote this novel around the turn of the eighteenth century, on the cusp between two cultural movements: Classicism and Romanticism. In contrast, Marianne, her younger sister, represents qualities of "sensibility": emotion, spontaneity, impulsiveness, and rapturous devotion. SUMMARY: Difference between "sense" and "sensibility" Characters: Elinor, the older sister, represents qualities of "sense": reason, restraint, social responsibility, and a clear-headed concern for the welfare of others.
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