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MIDTERM Flashcards

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Anowa

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Ama Ata Aidoo

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Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo

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1970

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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave:A True History

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Aphra Behn

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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave:A True History

Aphra Behn

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1688

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Candide or the Optimism

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Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire]

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Candide or the Optimism

Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire]

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1759

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“The Social Contract”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“The Social Contract”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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1762

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from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”

Mary Wollstonecraft

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1792

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“The Rights of Women”

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Anna Letitia Barbauld

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African

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Olaudah Equiano

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“The Rights of Women”

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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1795

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The Interesting Narrative of the LIfe of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano

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1789

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“An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”

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Immanuel Kant

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“AN Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”

Immanuel Kant

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1784

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“The Slave Ship”

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Heinrich Heine

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“The Slave Ship”

Heinrich Heine

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1854

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Anowa

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young woman who grows up

only child, not married, mother worries, marries Kofi Ako, hardworker, leaves Yebi, drowns herself

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Badua

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Anowa’s mother-worried about her daughter, complains at the beginning but cries at the end

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Kofi Ako

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Anowa’s husband, games, inherited land, did all the work then bought slaves then did nothing, begins to conform to the community, Anowa claimed he had become a woman, her man who expands

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Anowa historical context

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Bond of 1844
Great Britain and the Black Atlantic
Ama Ata Aidoo characterizes women in Ghana Society speparating stereotypes

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effects of slavery and capitalism

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Anowa

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Osam

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Anowas father, peacemaker between mother and daughter, feels Anowa should experience things to learn

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Old Man and Old Woman

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community-split opinions

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Oroonooko is from

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Coramatien present day Ghana

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Caesar was killed by his friends–> relates to

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Oroonoko being betrayed by Byam and killed for leading slave revolt

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In ____________ the king steals Imoinda from her lover

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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave: A True History

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Oroonoko kills Imoinda because

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it is the only escape, they will reconcile in the afterlife, the power lies within their hands

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loyalty to the king, treason=worst thing you can do, betrayal leads to tragedy

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Oroonoko, Aphra Behn loyalist to Charles I

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Narration in Oroonoko=

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subjection narration-first person, unreliable at first, tries to get reader to share their side, one-sided view of the hero of the play

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spoke French/English, perfect ebony skin, The Black Prince, treated more like a governor than a slave

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Oroonoko

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Caesar

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Oroonoko’s slave name

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Imoinda

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Queen of Night, Old General’s daugher, sold into slavery after Oroonoko tries to rescue her

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The King-Oroonoko’s grandfather that

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steals Imoinda from Oroonoko

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Aboan

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Oroonoko’s friend that helps him and likes Onahal

37
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Onahal

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a servant in the king’s court, former wife of the king, assists Oroonoko in his attempt to rescue Imoinda

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Trefy

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befriends Oroonoko, good mathematician and a linguist, overseer, attempts to free Oroonoko and return him to Africa

39
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Trefy gave

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Oroonoko the name Caesar

40
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Tuscan

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helps Oroonoko organize the slave revolt and then betrays him

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verisimilitude

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making something seem completely real when it is really fiction

42
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Caesar smokes a pipe

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while he is being tortured and cut into pieces

43
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Candide or The Optimism

Voltaire

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1755 Lisbon earthquake, attacks the widespread idealistic system of philosophical optimism

44
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Candide or The Optimism=a parody of

45
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Parody=

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eluding ot something that already exists

46
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search for Cumnegonde for so long and then when he finally finds her he is not attracted to her

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parody of romance

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Dr. Pangloss

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Candide’s teacher

“best of all possible worlds”

48
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Anabaptist and Martin both resemble the

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stress on individual experiences and judgment as the only true path to knowledge characterizes the Enlightenment’s more general challenge to received wisdom and authority, as well as its reliance on the senses rather than the soul

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Dogmaticism=

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feel like you have answer even before you have the answer; not reasoning through a problem; same response no matter what

Candide

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Turk-Farmer has a life of hardwork and simple pleasures

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Candide copies this type of life to keep from the evils of need, vice, and boredom

51
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Cacambo

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Candide’s manservant that travels with him to Eldorado, morally honest, practical man of action, responsible for reconciliation of Candide and Cunegonde

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Cunegonde

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daughter of the Baroness, enslaved and raped, satiric light on Candide’s mad romantic passion for her

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Giroflee

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monk forced into monestary to enlarge brothers fortune, Paquette’s client

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don Issachar

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wealthy Jew makes Cunegonde his mistress

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Pangloss

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tutor, unrecognized by Candide and the Anabaptist

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The Grand Inquisitor

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uses threat of religious oppression to force Issachar to share Cunegonde with him, is killed by Candide when he catches Candide and Imoinda together

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Jacques the Anabaptist

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pessimistic but kind, drowns saving someone

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The Baron

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Cunegonde’s brother thought to be dead by Candide, comes back as Jesuit priest, refuses to allow Candide to marry his sister

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Paquette

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prostitute, maid to the Baroness, syphilis

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the old woman (Candide)

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maid to Cunegonde, former daughter to the Pope, raped by Pirates, enslaved, wise, practical, loyal, attempted suicide but always finds a reason to live

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Martin

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old scholar, dogmatic, travel companion of Candide, meets in Surinam, took ship for Bordeaux with Candide, suffered much, pessimistic, flawed philosopher-has trouble seeing the world as it is expecting the worst

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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if enemy lies down weapon, no longer an enemy

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the general will

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Rousseau all about

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individual freedom

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Rousseau is concerned with the question of government can be legitimate.

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Slaves have no rights. Someone is doing the work while someone else is benefitting. “slavery and right” contradict each other

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Main contradiction of the Enlightenment

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All men should strive for civil and moral liberty.

ALL excludes women and slaves

67
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Mary Wollstonecraft was also a

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journalist, novelist, political thinker, “mother of modern feminism”

68
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Believed Rousseau’s ideas were good if

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women were involved too

69
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Mary Wollstonecraft responded to

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“The Social Contract” and conduct book

70
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Wollstonecraft believed the conduct book

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cultivated ignorance, forced submission, made women silly and vain not by nature

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Anna Letitia Barbauld wrote “The Rights of Women” in response to

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Mary Wollstonecraft’s from “The Vindication of the Rights of Women”

72
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“Your best is to please”

fruitless to “provoke war with the other sex”

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Anna Letitia Barbauld

“The Rights of Women”

73
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used satire in the beginning of her poem through

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irony and sarcasm (exaggerations)

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Immanuel Kant

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the lazier we are in thoguht, the easier it gets for people to take positions of leadership

75
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“An Answer to the Question: Whart Is Enlightenment?”

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our relationship to our spiritual advisors, doctors, and teachers is we are minorities. We rely on them to guide us until we mature and no longer need them to tell us what to do or instruct us when to stand up for things.

76
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“An Answer to the Question: Whart Is Enlightenment?”

Immanuel Kant

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believed anyone could be a scholar if they would just have the courage to write and speak pulically about the things they believed to be a certain way

77
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invokes the discourse of sensibility that became central to abolitionist movements

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The Interesting Narrative from the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano

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designed to move British Parliament investigating slave trading practices to sympathize with slaves as fellow humans and act to relieve their sufferings

79
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Gustavus Vassa

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Olaudah Equiano’s slave name

80
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Daniel Queen

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taught Olaudah Equiano how to shave, dress hair, read the Bible, explained passages, father-figure to Equiano

81
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Dick

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Equiano’s best interpreter, American boy 4-5 years older than Equiano, taught him about God

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Captain James Doran

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captain of Charming Sally, bought Equiano, taught him how to navigate

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Captain Pascal

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Equiano’s former master that he wants to go back to London to find

84
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Heinrich Heine was an abolitionist that wrote

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“The Slave Ship” his last poem

85
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Myrheer van Koek

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supercargo, sought to make a profit on the slaves

86
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Doctor van der Smissen

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doctor on the ship, fascinated with sharks

87
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ballad form, 3rd person narrator

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“The Slave Ship” resembled love and happiness but was ironic to the situation and emotions towards the slaves

88
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The Epic Romance

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the protagonist on a quest leaves the court and encounters adventures in the forst
A mystery resolved
aristocratic values which define courtly life

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