UNEDITED LIST OF 3 QUESTIONS, each requiring 2-part answers. LIST ENG 2019ASSIGNMENT – Instructions, each of the 3 questions firmly require a minimum of 200 words per answer, professionally written in upper level college level content that is relevant, needs no revision, grammatically competent, final draft presentation. Please cite and/or quote properly to avoid plagiarism penalty.
QUESTION 1.) In her 1992 scholarly article “Oroonoko: Birth of a Paradigm,”(available online) critic Moira Ferguson argues that Aphra Behn (who also was a female writer, playwright who wrote the novel “Oroonoko” about a heroic, noble slave, who dies for the cause offreedom)constructs West African history Eurocentrically in a discourse that one may call Anglo-African. By Anglo-Africanism I mean a colonialist discourse about slavery that unwittingly intensified negative attitudes toward Africans in general and slaves in particular” (New Literary History 343).
ATTENTION Two Part Answer Required – Please Be Sure to Answer Parts A & B completely and competently with relevant content.
A. In a minimum of 200 words, argue either for or against Ferguson’s view of Oroonoko as a promoter of European racism. Quote/ cite the page & paragraph of this direct evidence from the text to support/ analyze your point.
B. Then, in a minimum of 150 words, assume an imaginal possible opposite side from what you have argued?
QUESTION 2.) Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, available online (start to p. 108)
Required: (ANSWER part A in min. 200 words). ANSWER part B in 150 words min.
In pages 90-107 of the Oxford World Classics edition, Moll has the adventure of being lodged in the city of Bath with a scheming landlady, who furthers her acquaintance with a truly virtuous gentleman. The gentleman is drawn into a relationship with Moll that lasts for years, but eventually falls sick and breaks it off in a fit of conscience.
A. Begin by Interpreting one paragraph taken from this section, in a minimum of 200 words describe what is being shown in this paragraph about the gentleman’s character, AND/OR about Moll’s character.
B. Then, in min 150 words analyze a totally different opposite counter- respond, commenting on how your interpretation compares to an opposite interpretation.
Question 3. Ignatius Sancho’s Letters
Required: min. 200 words). One Response (min. 150 words)
1st Part, ONE of the letters mentioned below, write an detailed summation/ analysis of the content of the letter, and speculate on what it means that an African-British man has chosen this content to put into his very personally revealing letter. You must quote directly from sections of the letter to prove your claims and receive full credit that you have not only read the missive but are fully are of and comprehend its content. Remembering that your comprehension will dictate your score. 2ndPart, Two Then, respond to how another would/ could interpret how these group of Ignatius Sancho’s Letters are represented in accordance to his documented public stature and historical biography, available online via (google)?
The Letter Starts Here: LETTERS.
Volume 2LETTER I.
TO MR. J– W–E.
1778.
YOUR good father insists on my scribbling a sheet of absurdities, and gives me a notable reason for it, that is, ‘Jack will be pleased with it.’–Now be it known to you–I have a respect both for father and son–yea for the whole family, who are every soul (that I have the honor or pleasure to know anything of) tinctured–and leavened with all the obsolete goodness of old times–so that a man runs some hazard in being seen in the W–e’s society of being biassed to Christianity.–I never see your poor Father–but his eyes betray his feelings–for the hopeful youth in India–a tear
of joy dancing upon the lids–is a plaudit not to be equalled this side death!–See the effects of right-doing, my worthy friend–continue in the tract of rectitude–and despise poor paltry Europeans–titled–Nabobs.–Read your Bible–as day follows night, God’s blessing follows virtue–honour–and riches bring up the rear–and the end is peace.–Courage, my boy–I have done preaching.–Old folks love to seem wife–and if you are silly enough to correspond with grey hairs–take the consequence.–I have had the pleasure of reading most of your letters, through the kindness of your father.–Youth is naturally prone to vanity–such is the weakness of Human Nature, that pride has a fortress in the best of hearts–I know no person that possesses a better than Johnny W–e–but although flattery is poison to youth, yet truth obliges me to confess that your correspondence betrays no symptom of vanity–but teems with truths of an honest affection–which merits praise–and commands esteem.
In some one of your letters which I do not recollect–you speak (with honest indignation) of the treachery and chicanery of the Natives *.
* Extracts of two letters from Mr. W–e to his Father, dated Bombay, 1776 and 1777.
“1776. I have introduced myself to Mr. G–, who behaved very friendly in giving me some advice, which was very necessary, as the inhabitants, who are chiefly Blacks, are a set of canting, deceitful people, and of whom one must have great caution.”
“1777. I am now thoroughly convinced, that the account which Mr. G–gave me of the natives of this country is just and true, that they are a set of deceitful people, and have not such a word as Gratitude in their language, neither do they know what it is–and as to their dealings in trade, they are like unto Jews.”
–My good friend, you should remember from whom they learnt those vices:–the first christian visitors found them a simple, harmless people–but the cursed avidity for wealth urged these first visitors (and all the succeeding ones) to such acts of deception–and even wanton cruelty–that the poor ignorant Natives soon learnt to turn the knavish–land diabolical arts which
they too soon imbibed–upon their teachers.
I am sorry to observe that the practice of your country (which as a resident I love–and for its freedom–and for the many blessings I enjoy in it–shall ever have my warmest wishes–prayers–and blessings); I say it is with reluctance, that I must observe your country’s conduct has been uniformly wicked in the East–West-Indies–and even on the coast of Guinea.–The grand object of English navigators–indeed of all christian navigators–is money–money–money–for which I do not pretend to blame them–Commerce was meant by the goodness of the Deity to diffuse the various goods of the earth into every part–to unite mankind in the blessed chains of brotherly love–society–and mutual dependence:–the enlightened Christian should diffuse the riches of the Gospel of peace–with the commodities of his respective land–Commerce attended with strict honesty–and with Religion for its companion–would be a
blessing to every shore it touched at.–In Africa, the poor wretched natives–blessed with the most fertile and luxuriant soil–are rendered so much the more miserable for what Providence meant as a blessing:–the Christians’ abominable traffic for slaves–and the horrid cruelty and treachery of the petty Kings–encouraged by their Christian customers–who carry them strong liquors–to enflame their national madness–and powder–and bad fire-arms–to furnish them with the hellish means of killing and kidnapping.–But enough–it is a subject that fours my blood–and I am sure will not please the friendly bent of your social affections.–I mentioned these only to guard my friend against being too hasty in condemning the knavery of a people who bad as they may be–possibly–were made worse–by their Christian visitors.–Make human nature thy study–wherever thou residest–whatever the religion–or the complexion–study their hearts.–Simplicity, kindness, and charity be thy guide–with these even Savages
will respect you–and God will bless you!
Your father–who sees every improvement of his boy with delight–observes that your hand-writing is much for the better–in truth, I think it as well as any modest man can wish:–if my long epistles do not frighten you–and I live till the return of next spring–perhaps I shall be enabled to judge how much you are improved since your last favour:–write me a deal about the natives–the soil and produce–the domestic and interior manners of the people–customs–prejudices–fashons–and follies.–Alas! we have plenty of the two last here–and what is worse, we have politics–and a detestable Brother’s war–where the right hand is hacking and hewing the left–whilst Angels weep at our madness–and Devils rejoice at the ruinous prospect.
Mr. R– and the ladies are well.–Johnny R– has favoured me with a long letter–he is now grown familiar with danger–and can bear the whilstling
of bullets–the cries and groans of the human species–the roll of drums–clangor of trumpets–shouts of combatants–and thunder of cannon–all these he can bear with soldier-like fortitude–with now and then a secret wish for the society of his London friends–in the sweet blessed security–of peace–and friendship.
This, young man, is my second letter–I have wrote till I am stupid, I perceive–I ought to have found it out two pages back.–Mrs. Sancho joins me in good wishes–I join her in the same–in which double sense believe me,
