Aphra Behn's The Rover

Thinking Activity

This blog is a response to Aphra Behn's The Rover assigned by Megha Trivedi mam, the Department of English,MKBU.In this blog I'm going to discuss about the questions of the Play 'The Rover'.

Thinking Activity:

Here we Begin,

Q.1Angelica considers the financial negotiations that one makes before marrying a prospective bride the same as prostitution. Do you agree?

Response: Yes, I agree, now-a-days it's common that we can see around our society's for what they want they do makes financial negotiations in each and everybody's life which we can find here in these play of the Rover where Angelica does the same with Willmore before excepting him where Angelica as a prostitute does every time in the play 'The Rover' She demands a thousands Crowns per month from any of the man's. 

Thus, we can say that yes one Angelica makes before marrying prospective bride the same as a prostitution.

Q.2 "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was She who earned, them the right to Speak their minds". Virginia Woolf said so in 'A Room of one's own'. Do you agree with this statement? Justify Your answer with reference to your reading of the play 'The Rover'.

Response: Yes, I do agree with this statement of Virginia Woolf said 'A Room of one's own' means here she trying to tell us that women's should have their own place to do something whether not be dependent where we should

Be financially independent and we should have what we want and be able to make money by our own self. Where Apra Behn used earn money by writing. Where she does the great achievement in the 17th where there were no values for Womens specially where there were many restrictions like for example, not to study, not to play just to live in homes and to do house works so women's should be financially independent.

Q.3 Which female character best represents the playwright, Aphra Behn? Consider the characteristics & belief of each female character, and make an argument that relates these distinctive attribute to what You know about Behn?

Response: First, I would say about the writer Apra Behn who lived in the half 17th Century which was very difficult time to live and write the play where Apra Behn did earning by writing that is a big task to fulfilled in the very bad time. So these female character makes an argument that relates these distinctive. 

So through the stories of Hellena, Florinda, and Angellica. Behn combines strong elements of feminism and libertinism by focusing on characteristics of marriage, self - Identity & representation. Each of these character types represents a different aspect of a Women's struggle to define herself during the Restoration.

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