A 7 page paper on a seventeenth-century Restoration comedy. The writer argues that against a backdrop of seeming wittiness and lightheartedness, Behn presents the darker condition of libertine ideals in her time. No additional sources cited. A five page paper looking at Aphra Behn s seventeenth-century novel in terms of the degree to which it portrays the issue of slavery realistically. Through quoting historical material on the slave trade in that era, the paper argues that not only is Behn s work accurate, but it presents the romance of two black lovers much more sympathetically than was common at that time.
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Wycherley's The Country Wife, Behn's The Rover, Congreve's The Way of the World, and Gay's The Beggar's Opera. The paper shows how, through scenes of love and marriage as well as infidelity and prostitution, these authors juxtapose idealized views of the roles women and men were supposed to occupy in society against a caustic view of the way things really were. No additional sources cited. The significance of the Maycomb setting in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and how it affects the courtroom scene demonstrates the way in which a black man's life can be maligned with blatant lies and misinterpretations. By Finch taking on Robinson's alleged rape case, it sets a new precedence for the narrow-mindedness of the townspeople and the injustice routinely inflicted upon the Negro community.