Women as commodities, marriage as prostitution in Aphra Behn's The Rover.

• Main Author: Lim, Seok Peng.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52247
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In The Rover, Aphra Behn uses the carnivalesque form to show that women are perceived as commodities, whether moral and social hierarchies are supposed to be in place or not. Looking at how women are perceived as commodities-- by men and themselves-- I argue that marriage is like prostitution in The...