“Imoinda is as irrecoverably lost to me as if she were snatched by the cold arms of death… Oh! she is never to be retrieved… unless I would either ignobly set an ill precedent to my successors, or abandon my country, and fly with her to some unknown world who never heard our story.” Aphra Behn, Chapter 1
Oroonoko and Imoinda are the main characters that live under this strong and hurtful love. Starts as a beautiful experience and ends in tragedy. Oroonoko is stuck in this idea where if Imionida is not with him she doesn’t deserve to live happy with anyone else. He shows to be a character who grows an obsession over this love he won’t let go. He will only let death separate both of them. This is why his actions had no control that he killed his own love of his life. Their love story are common throughout spanish and other cultural tv novels.
The video continues to explain the tragedy love story between the main characters. Both describe each other as the perfect one to be with. The video relates to my quote by showing how strong Oroonoko expressed his feelings towards Imoinda. Both loved each other deeply that made the reader think they would be the perfect couple like any fairytale. However, the speaker in the video describes their love story to be only a failure. The big turning point in the story was when Imoinda had to die which she ended accepting it. One of the points that I agree with the speaker is when she talks about how both of their deaths were really different but they still died truly in love with each other. As the speaker described their love story, I was able to connect with Romeo and Juliet’s love story. The similarity between these love stories written by different authors is that love is portrayed as amazing experience that ends with two individuals killing themselves for not accepting to live without each other. Love is defined as an amazing feeling where pain is not part of the picture. These type of stories contradict the fairytale genre where there is always a happy ending and tragedy does not exist.