Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave Rhetorical Analysis

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Ultimate Defeat of Oroonoko
Defeat is usually not so a thing you should be hoping for nor looking forward too, it can lead to a road of sorrow. Defeat is a tough thing to handle especially when the defeat comes at the expense of your life or a loved one. In the story “Oroonoko; or The Royal Slave” Oroonoko exceled at anything and everything. Oroonoko had it all from the looks, to the charm, to the fame, to the ladies, and to the brains. Life was all smooth for Oroonoko until he choose to act unwisely. In the end of Oroonoko pre-mature life he deserved his ultimate defeat of an ending to his life.
At the ending of Oroonoko’s life he killed his wife, because he had a plan; then he couldn’t go through with his plan, then he ends up getting captured and killed in a humiliating way. He was tied down getting his genitals cut off, then his ears and nose, then his arms
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As a result of Caesar receiving punishment he was full of intent to seek revenge, another foolish idea for a man that is well educated and that has been in many wars and battles being victor of them all with a his army that was trained to fight. Coming off what would be his most embarrassing defeat, one would think that Caesar would humble himself and be grateful his wife is unharmed and that he isn’t dead. But that isn’t Caesar.
Caesar was indeed full of himself, in some ways prideful. Prime example number one is when after he got whipped for the first time he planned revenge, he thought that he was going to be strong enough to carry out his plan. He started his plan but couldn’t carry it out due to his weakness and his pride making him believe that he would be strong enough to kill his own wife one that he was obsessed with to now kill her and seek revenge just so she would deal with his

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