LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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In the 18th-century weddings were arranged marriages, and she wants to choose her own spouse.
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After marriage, wives are little more than the property of their husbands.
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Men choose women based upon the size of their dowry and not upon love.
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She knows she will lose her freedom.
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She thinks it is old fashioned.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Opposites Do Attract: The Relationship Between Mirabell and Millamant Mirabell and Millamant are two characters in the play The Way of the World that are completely opposite from one another, yet they still managed to find love in one another and later are to be married to each other near the end of the play.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fainall’s fortune. In addition, he wants assurance that Lady Wishfort will not marry so that Mrs. Fainall is certain to be the heir. This move of Fainall’s is now countered; Millamant says that she will marry Sir Wilfull to save her own fortune.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mirabell and Mrs. Fainall were lovers; she married Fainall as a cover for her affair with Mirabell. Mirabell, during their stroll, has told her of his scheme to trick Lady Wishfort and marry Millamant. As he does not trust Waitwell, he arranged for a marriage between Waitwell and Foible, Lady Wishfort’s maid.
Detailed explanation-4: -The proviso scene of ‘The Way of the World’ is in Act IV of the play. The play’s wit battle between Millamant and Mirabell leads to one of the play’s most pivotal scenes, the Proviso scene, in which both of them negotiate a prenuptial agreement.