LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Question
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William Congreve’s “The Way of World” opens with a game of cards. How does this game offer an indirect comment on the play?
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Love is a game of risky bets.
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Love is a game of chance.
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Love is a game that requires strategy.
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Love is a game that requires omniscience.
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Love is a game that punishes the naive.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Mirabell’s confusion indicates that he clearly never held feelings for Marwood. However, Fainall’s jealousy prevents Fainall from realizing this. Over the course of the conversation, the two men’s mutual dislike becomes more apparent, though it is still hidden behind at least a modicum of social pleasantry.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Way of the World, comedy of manners in five acts by William Congreve, performed and published in 1700. The play, which is considered Congreve’s masterpiece, ridicules the assumptions that governed the society of his time, especially those concerning love and marriage.
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