LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Behn wanted to show that women who leave the protection of the church are not wise enough to choose a proper spouse.
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Behn wanted to portray a female character in complete control of her life and destiny.
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Behn wanted to point out that money cannot replace wisdom.
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Behn wanted to affirm the theatrical convention of allowing the rake to win out.
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Behn wanted to criticize the theatrical convention of rewarding virtue and punishing vice.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The strong, witty, brave heroine, and sister to Florinda and Don Pedro, Hellena starts the play determined to venture out into the Carnival and fall in love, although her brother Don Pedro wishes for her to become a nun.
Detailed explanation-2: -Witty and charming, Willmore also has a dark side, which becomes obvious when he almost rapes Florinda, the beloved of his friend Belvile. Although he eventually vows to marry Hellena, his intellectual equal, it is difficult to believe that wedding vows will end Willmore’s promiscuous behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hellena loves Willmore and, despite frustrations with her own feelings for him, she resolves to pursue him. Though she is in competition with Angellica, she is sympathetic to her rival. She refuses to sleep with Willmore until they are married, and he eventually gives in.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Rover, published and first produced in 1677, was Aphra Behn’s most successful play. The original full title, The Rover; or, The Banish ‘d Cavaliers, indicates that the play was a tribute to the formerly exiled cavalier and newly reinstated king, Charles II.