All three main characters take their turn offering their lives for one another. Celario goes to war for Ouâbi, offering his life for him and Azâkia at the same time. Ouâbi then dies for Celario and Azâkia so they can be together. Lastly, Azâkia, overcome with the sadness Ouâbi's death considers killing herself for him, and the only reason she restrains is because she promised Celario she would not act so drastically. These life offerings show suicide is proof of natural virtue, and a presumably nonaggressive for the white man to win. Other intriguing concepts in ‘’Ouâbi’’ are the ideas of homosocial relationships and gender differentiations in Indian culture. The fact that Celario was banished from his people because of a duel gone wrong in which somebody died who was not supposed to and that he came to a culture which is dedicated to hand-to-hand combat and personal revenge allows Morton to truly critique modern Anglo-American masculinity, dedicated to adulterous debauchery. This also allows Morton to compare the masculinity of Ouâbi and Celario to the femininity of Azâkia. While the idea of revenge plays a large part in masculinity and it is an outward action that can be shown, the feminine aspect of melancholia is the exact opposite. It has no outward action. It produces strong mental hyperactivity. The opening scene generates the view that Azâkia is truly the one who suffers with and for the male characters. Women are expected to have this type of attitude. That they should mourn when men mourn and mourn for them even if they do not. This is also shown when Azâkia is contemplating suicide because Ouâbi killed himself for her. The idea of suicide comes from her dreams and fantasies that just are not real. “Her feelings have the same transparent integrity as theirs and her psychological life is far richer, but she is never instrumental”. References External links Digital copy of Ouâbi; or The Virtues of Nature (1790) at the Internet Archive 1790 poems American poems Poems about sexuality Works about Native Americans