“A mean submissive passion is conveyed” when passionate love usurps Angellica’s pride (Behn, 5.1.279). With this imagery, Angellica expresses her upset at her heart’s betrayal of feeling love towards Wilmore. The word “mean” demonstrates a harsh and relentless perception of how love wrongs her; it forces her to relinquish her independency and pride by making her submit to that passion. Love thus tyrannizes Angellica and creates a sour interpretation of the idiom “Love conquers all.” With this interpretation, love’s performance controls women and becomes a corrupted construct within Alphra Behn’s The Rover.
To begin with, Angellica grieves that “My virgin heart, Moretta! Oh,’tis gone!” after realizing her love for Wilmore (4.2.161). In hailing …show more content…
In referencing marriage by its economic purposing, Angellica relays how the valued qualities of a woman becoming secondary to marriage’s business transaction, which appears as a form of prostitution. By this reasoning, love and marriage should not be grouped. Wilmore supports such by commenting, “Marriage is as certain a bane to love as lending money is to friendship” (5.1.490). By making the analogy of lending money to a friend, Wilmore reintroduces marriage’s being a business transaction in such a way that love and marriage not only cannot be grouped, but also they become repellants of each other. Still, Florinda and Belvile’s pursuit of marriage creates the predominate ideology of love’s being pure and marriage being a union of pure love. If one considers both Angellica and Wilmore’s cynical approach to marriage and the notion of love and marriage being intertwined, then love becomes corrupted by the money within
To begin with, Angellica grieves that “My virgin heart, Moretta! Oh,’tis gone!” after realizing her love for Wilmore (4.2.161). In hailing …show more content…
In referencing marriage by its economic purposing, Angellica relays how the valued qualities of a woman becoming secondary to marriage’s business transaction, which appears as a form of prostitution. By this reasoning, love and marriage should not be grouped. Wilmore supports such by commenting, “Marriage is as certain a bane to love as lending money is to friendship” (5.1.490). By making the analogy of lending money to a friend, Wilmore reintroduces marriage’s being a business transaction in such a way that love and marriage not only cannot be grouped, but also they become repellants of each other. Still, Florinda and Belvile’s pursuit of marriage creates the predominate ideology of love’s being pure and marriage being a union of pure love. If one considers both Angellica and Wilmore’s cynical approach to marriage and the notion of love and marriage being intertwined, then love becomes corrupted by the money within