I would just like to start out by saying that I really did enjoy this book.  The book completely flips the script when Oroonoko goes from being a royalty to being a slave.  The author describes Oroonoko as this magnificent human being.  Physically Oroonoko is depicted as a powerful figure, which is interesting because he may by physically powerful as a Prince, however, little did he know that he was going to be using his man power as a slave in the later years of his life.  I also thought it was interesting that the reason he takes a path toward slavery is simply because he has love and affection for a woman that the old man in the story has a particular liking.  When Oroonoko begins his life as a slave it is as if he is given a completely new identity.  He begins working a slave lifestyle, which is nothing like that of what he was doing when he was a royalty.  To me the most interesting part of the book comes in the later stages when Caesar and Tuscan are punished.  This book really shows the extreme lengths slaveowners would go to punish their slaves.  The men were bound with several stakes, “whipping the flesh from their bones.”  Interesting that the entire time Oroonoko simply rolls his eyes in disgust.  The book features a lot of affection and love, however, the end of the book is simply pure brutality.  Oroonoko experienced two completely different lifestyles at opposite ends of the spectrum.