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Impossible Gulfs in Howards End; or,
What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
 | E. M Forster’s epigraph "Only connect . . ." represents hope
and philosophy, but perhaps not prophecy. The philosophy is
perhaps Forster’s; the hope perhaps his hope for England, as
well as the Schlegel sisters’ for England, themselves, and their
families. As the first great division of the 20th
century threatened, there was an appalling lack of true
connection: between nations, between castes, between
individuals–communication failed. |
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| Animus Nobilis
et Liberalis aut Canis Fidelis: Aphra Behn’s Faltering Praise in
Oroonoko
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It would be nice to think that Aphra Behn
set out to write a treatise condemning the enslavement of any
race, for all time; perhaps she did, because in no wise may
Oroonoko be read as an endorsement of slavery. And yet, and
yet…
There is little doubt surrounding Behn’s
skill as a writer of both prose and poetry, yet ambivalence
flutters through the characterization of her African prince like
the butterflies of Surinam flit through the tropical air. She
may damn him with her praise, though it be not faint. Behn is no
satirist, nor does her narrator “assent with civil leer/And,
without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.” (Pope 2550) Behn’s
appreciation for Oroonoko’s intelligence, face, and form appears
to be genuine in every respect.
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