"Aphra Behn's The Rover ."

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 I am Maya Batiya, A student Department of English, MKBU.

  
     _ Assigned by  Megha ma'am.

Q.1 )  Angllica  considers the financial negotiation that one makes before marrying a prospective bride the same as prostitution . Do you agree ? 

Ans : 
           Angellica makes a good point; marriage and prostitution are both relationships that are customarily contingent, to varying degrees, upon financial considerations. They are of course not entirely the same, but it would seem hypocritical to denounce one and participate in the other. The point of this statement is to acknowledge that marriage can be just as amoral as prostitution if one considers placing a monetary value on love the reason behind prostitution’s amorality.

Q.2)  " All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn , for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds ."   Virginia Woolf said  so in ' A Room of One's own'. Do you agree with this statement? Justify your answer with reference to your reading of the play ' The Rover'.

Ans :
        A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

 Q.3) Which female character best represents the play wright, Aphra Behn?  Consider the characteristics, and beliefs of each female character,and make an arrangement that relates these  distinctive attributes to what you know about Behn.
 
Ans : 
 
   Aphra Behn was a woman ahead of her time; as the first published female author, she broke the mold not only in her professional accomplishments, but also in her daily life. She was a well-traveled woman, spending time in Surinam with her family, and in Antwerp as a spy for Charles II. Behn is also purported to have had an on-and-off-again relationship with an English expatriate and spy. Her path is one characterized by inconstancy, and it was one that could only have been undertaken by a brave and confident individual. In The Rover, it is Hellena who best demonstrates confidence and bravery in her endeavors to alter her destiny. Like Aphra, Helena is a confident woman and persuasive leader, not afraid to draw attention to the hypocrisy of religion, and drawn strongly to the freedom of libertinism. She also shares with Aphra a desire to explore and live dangerously.



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