Project Action Plan Week 4

Victor Haynes Jr.

Eng205

2/18/18

Project Action Plan

• My project will use the fictional story of Prince Oroonoko The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn the first professional woman writer.
• First I will introduce the background of the story then my topic I will focus on is: Love and freedom as two subjects to focus on. Then I will choose two selections and discuss how that subject is discussed in those selections. Using literary devices to help frame my discussion.
• I will use this as a thesis and use my subject of love to show how the prince was captured in the first place because of the love that he had for Imoinda. He saved his beloved from his corrupt grandfather but in doing this lead him to be tricked into slavery by a selfish english slave trader along with his love.
• Then also introducing the subject of freedom to my writing by showing nobody in that time who was African was too good or too powerful to not be affected by slavery. Also freedom is the bigger subject so it also will help me argue that the prince who was a slave now still was not stripped of his leadership because he end up leading a revolt with his fellow slaves. He wanted to destroy the coopereration the slave owners had at the time over his people.
• Accompanied by me looking at the literary devices the narrator Behn brings up from her chilling story. Also showing that her freedom was limited even though she wasn't a slave she only could narrate his story to help anything else could have gotten her into much more trouble.

My biggest text I will be using to help prove my points are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn to explain the background in my introduction and also  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroonoko to help give a clearer explanation of The Prince’s story and use things from the pages in our readings to help back up my thesis. Also using another text from the book of a few poems that will connect to the subjects of freedom mostly and love if I can find one.