Thinking Activity- The Rover by Aphra Behn's

  

The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn. Now the deal those below questions though my understanding.

# Angellica Considers the financial negotiations which one makes before marriying a prospective bride the same as prostitution. Do you agree?

Two things I clear that now:

Prostitution:-

Occurs when one person provides another person with sex or sexual service for money.

Marriage:-

Is when two people decide to change their legal standing from two seperate individuals to a family unit. Sex usually enters into the relationship being the most common way to produce offspring but also because it feels good, but marrige isn't about providing services in exchange for sex.

Now  'The Rover' Angellica Bianca is a renowned courtesan who changes 1000 crowns a month for her companionship. She hanged an advertising poster outside her home and prides herself on the power she has over men. 

Angellica makes a good point marriage and prostitution are both relationship 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 a moral as prostitution if one considers placing a monetary value on love the reason behind prostitution's a morality.

Class and money:-

The Rover Cavaliers constantly becam the fact that they do not have sufficient funds, while Don Pedro picks a husband for his sister based almost solely upon fortune. Angelica, too, is obsessed with money, and must crucially decide whether she will give her heart, to willmore for free, or hold out for the highest bidder. In fact the theme of money and love often become intertwined in the play, as characters speak each other credit. The world in which they live is a capitalistic one and money pervades even the most emotion of issues.

 Angellica rightly say that the financial negotiations which one makes before marriying a prospective bride the same as prostitution. Aphra Behn's show real pictures of the society in Victoria era. Money is most important for the marriage. More money and richest people are mostly live happily and financial condition is most important for the marriage.