Slavery and Dehumanization
Anastácia trembled in fear, and backed farther into the corner of the dark, sweltering room. The monster had come again for her, and approached slowly and menacingly. His eyes gleamed with lurid desire, and as beads of sweat ran down his dust-streaked face, he mouthed sounds in the alien language he spoke. Each guttural syllable from the monster pierced her heart and soul with terror.
Wiry and strong, the sweaty, dirty man’s hands grasped Anastácia and forced her to him. She shrunk from his grasp and cried, her blue eyes shedding tears of terror and outrage that flowed like rivers down the dark skin of her regal cheeks. Once she was a princess famed in her distant home as much for her wisdom and kindness as for her beauty. Now she was sunk to a mere object whose physical presence and spirit alike were nothing more than prey for the demon-drunk slavers of Brazil.
Her beauty was not merely physical — she glowed with the inner beauty of grace and intelligence and confidence, and she was targeted by evil precisely for these qualities. The squalid creatures who first captured her, enslaved her, and finally delivered her to the distant shores of far-away Brazil sought to quench their demon thirst on the oppression of her goodness and her beauty. To satisfy their own evil, disfiguring bloodlust, they sought to conquer and consume her essence.
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