Social Hierarchy and Gender Roles in Fantomina and Oroonoko
Gender roles and social hierarchy play a vital part in many literary works. Milton’s Paradise Lost strengthens this argument portraying gender as the downfall of humanity. Gender roles and a hierarchal universe places Man, which is associated with the spirit, above Woman, which is associated with desire and the human body. Fantomina and Oroonoko are stores of this hierarchy being twisted and thrown out of order and then end with the return to the assumed natural order. Both Fantomina and […]