You will prepare and submit a term paper on Aphra Behn's The Rover. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Aphra Behn's The Rover. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. In a reflective analysis of The Rover, it becomes lucid that the play incorporates several pertinent themes such as prostitution and rape which are treated with comic buffoonery. It is also evident that the play reflects Behn's strong the vulnerability of women during the Restoration period. A close reading of the text of the play also confirms that The Rover has been designed in a way to fascinate the popular interests of the Restoration society by placing the female characters in morally compromising situations. The popularity of the first part of the play which appeared on the stage in the year 1677 helped Behn in producing the second part in the year 1681 and the author was able to make a considerable income from it. Most significantly, a close reading and explication of The Rover with regard to the word choice, rhetorical function, imagery, symbolism, syntax, and figurative aspects of the play are essential in appreciating the great work by Aphra Behn and this paper intends to undertake a reflective analysis of these elements in the play.