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Freedom and imprisonment also seems to apply equally to Octavian Nothing. The author seems to be a driving force of the book. Sharper and Gitney desire freedom from the British who control the country. Octavian’s desire for freedom is not related to his own personal condition. His desire for freedom is birthed when he discovers he is actually a slave not because he has any wants. In fact, it seems to me that Octavian, with a superior education is actually better equipped to understand and wrestle with his being under slavery than the slaves that were around him who did not share in his privileged upbring. No phrase better sums up the novel as a whole than Freedom versus Slavery. Octavian desires freedom even when he is not poorly treated. The
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