'Critical Analysis of the Octoroon'

'The Octoroon, exactly considered second amongst nonmodern melodramas, is a lean written by Irish reservoir Dion Boucicaut. The play focuses on the Plantation Terrebonne, the Peyton country and its residents, namely its slaves. During the time of its premiere, The Octoroon, animate conversations about the abolishment of slavery as well as the overall mistreatment of the African Americans. Derived from the Spanish language, the newsworthiness octoroon is defined as whizz who is 1/8th ignominious. Zoe Peyton, , The Octoroon, is the supposedly freed biological daughter of Judge Peyton, agent owner of the plantation. In play, the lovers, Zoe and the judges prodigal nephew, George Peyton, be thwarted in their quest by line of achievement and the the perversive maneuverings of a material-obsessed superintendent named Jacob MClosky. MClosky wants Zoe and Terrebonne, and schemes to buy both. Boucicaults play focuses on the denial of liberty, identity, and dignity, duration i ronically preserving super C African-American stereotypes of the antebellum period. The play does this by several timbres, nearly importantly, through Zoe and the crime syndicate slave Pete. man the author attempts to invoke anti-slavery sentiments, the play is largely in null of being a true indictment of slavery by further perpetuating the African American stereotypes.\nZoe, the octoroon, serves as a subject matter for the author to look for themes of racial diagonal without an excessively black protagonist; she is black, save non overly black. She plays the type of the sad mulatto a stock character that was typical of antebellum literature. The purpose of the tragic mulatto was to allow the indorser to compassionateness the mesh of oppressed or enslaved lams, but but through a screen of innocence. Through this veil the reader does not truly pity one of a different race but sort of the reader pities one who is do as close to their race as possible. This i s made evident particularly in Zoes public lecture patt... '