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Create a 6 page essay paper that discusses Shakespeares Henry V and The Rover.Download file to see previous pages... Behn persisted in writing plays until her works proved themselves worthy and her ma
Create a 6 page essay paper that discusses Shakespeares Henry V and The Rover.
Download file to see previous pages...Behn persisted in writing plays until her works proved themselves worthy and her marginal status was somewhat reversed as she was accorded recognition as a playwright.
In The Rover, the socially marginalized characters are the women and the materialistically poor men. Act One, Scene One opens with Florinda and Hellena discussing the former's impending marriage. Florinda says that their father gives 'unjust commands' to a forced marriage against her will. Florinda pleads with her brother Pedro, saying. 'I hate Vincentio, sir, and I would not have a man so dear to me as my brother follow the ill customs of our country and make a slave of his sister. And, sir, my father's will I'm sure you may divert.' (Act One, Scene One, Lines 56-8). The daughter, sister and woman's choice fall under the domination of patriarchy. The woman is treated as a commodity in marriage. She is a marginal character because her opinion has little importance or influence, as seen when Florinda voices her choice in Belvile but is gunned down by Pedro. Florinda has a dowry provided by her deceased uncle but that is to be used to marry into a bigger fortune. Belvile is marginal character who is discredited against because he has neither wealth nor social position because he is a poor, banished English cavalier. Florinda admits that Antonio has the edge over Belvile because. 'For he has all the advantages of nature,/ The moving arguments of youth and Fortune.' (Act One, Scene One, Lines 144-45). The traits of socially marginal characters are mentioned by Owens &. Goodman. (Owens &. Goodman 151-2). Behn has established that socially marginal characters are prejudiced against because of their female gender or material poverty.
A socially marginal character can make the difference when s/he exerts the correct efforts. Women are treated as sexual objects of desire but when they have the guts to fight back, they gain some respect and control over their freedom. Angellica fights the simple sale of her favours with Willmore because he has manipulated her pride. She not only gives herself willingly away but finances him with five hundred crowns too. She is a marginal character with substance as she shows she has a heart to desire genuine love. However, her lowly social status as a prostitute has marginalised her and she is not accorded respect due to her doubly inferior status of gender and profession. Behn couples Angellica and Willmore to show the irony of two marginal characters romancing each other. She reminds us that the socially marginalised are also humans with needs and desires. Behn presents Angellica favourably to show empathy for her.
Willmore is a socially marginal character because he is poor. He cannot afford to buy Angellica but does not let his material wealth inferiority obstruct his lust for her. Willmore is a bad marginal character that functions as the clown, or the equivalent of the Shakespearian fool / jester. He unwittingly provides comic relief with his clumsy behaviour. In Act Three, Scene Five, Florinda is hiding in her garden when Willmore chances upon her and foils her planned rendezvous with Belvile.
Willmore's roving nature with women is eventually tamed by Hellena, who offers him her dowry of three hundred thousand crowns.
