Aboan Character Analysis in Oroonoko

A young warrior and good friend of Oroonoko, Aboan is basically Oroonoko’s “wingman.” He pretends to be in love with the much older Onahal, one of the king’s old wives, to help Oroonoko visit Imoinda while she is cloistered in the Otan. Aboan is extremely loyal to Oroonoko and a good liar, traits that help him seduce Onahal. Along with Oroonoko, he is captured and sent to Suriname as a slave.

Aboan Quotes in Oroonoko

The Oroonoko quotes below are all either spoken by Aboan or refer to Aboan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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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.

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Aboan Quotes in Oroonoko

The Oroonoko quotes below are all either spoken by Aboan or refer to Aboan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

).

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.

Related Characters: (speaker), , ,