Anita Pacheco wrote an article on Aphra Behn’s “The Rover” in which she introduces the idea of rape and how the female character is portrayed in the play. After reading the article I would recommend it to others based on several factors. First, Pacheco made me think of “The Rover” in a different way from which I originally thought, and it seemed to follow a specific structure that provides an easy to read essay. While both structurally sound and an easy read the reader can feel a feministic view point coming from Pacheco and how that view drives the argument she is attempting to make.
Before criticizing the argument Pacheco presents, it is important to understand what she is arguing for. Pacheco in her article mentions a to the point thesis in which she states “this essay will examine the central role which rape plays in the overall idea of how ladies act like whores and whores like ladies” (Pacheco P. 323). In the essay by Pacheco she analyzes the scenes in which rape is apparent but played off by the character in a way that makes it ok. While doing so she also breaks the essay into two sections, one of which is analyzing …show more content…
She titles her essay “Rape and The Female Subject in Aphra Behn’s “The Rover”. From the title I started to look at The Rover differently. Originally I thought of it as a play in which the two main women of the play want something different from what their father and brother want from them. From the beginning of the play, we are introduced to Florinda and we learn that her father wants her to marry someone she does not. She is then determined to marry someone else in which she actually likes. Also, we have Hellena and she is someone that is in a nunnery, but wants nothing to do with it and wants to marry someone as well and originally I thought of the play as breaking boundaries of the time period and how women can have their happy
Before criticizing the argument Pacheco presents, it is important to understand what she is arguing for. Pacheco in her article mentions a to the point thesis in which she states “this essay will examine the central role which rape plays in the overall idea of how ladies act like whores and whores like ladies” (Pacheco P. 323). In the essay by Pacheco she analyzes the scenes in which rape is apparent but played off by the character in a way that makes it ok. While doing so she also breaks the essay into two sections, one of which is analyzing …show more content…
She titles her essay “Rape and The Female Subject in Aphra Behn’s “The Rover”. From the title I started to look at The Rover differently. Originally I thought of it as a play in which the two main women of the play want something different from what their father and brother want from them. From the beginning of the play, we are introduced to Florinda and we learn that her father wants her to marry someone she does not. She is then determined to marry someone else in which she actually likes. Also, we have Hellena and she is someone that is in a nunnery, but wants nothing to do with it and wants to marry someone as well and originally I thought of the play as breaking boundaries of the time period and how women can have their happy