The rover as a deep well of imagination

1.  The Rover as a deep well of
imagination
 Nanditaba Chudasama
Semester :1
Enrollment No:3069206420200006
Batch :2020-2022
Roll No: 13
S.B Gardi Department of English
Bhavnagar University

2. 🔍POINTS COVERED☞
☞ Aphra Behn as Restoration poet
☞ women’s status with context to The Rover
☞ Struggle for status in 21st century
☞ Merging views of Literature & Mankind
☞ Aphra Behn v/s Thomas
☞ Art of shaping love

3. 1640 - 1689
Aphra
Bhen
Aphra Behn was an
English playwright,
poet, translator and
fiction writer from
the Restoration era.
As one of the first
English women to
earn her living by
her writing, she
broke cultural
barriers and served
as a literary role
model for later
generations of
women authors.

4. Status of women in
context of The Rover
The place of women in the society
with the frame of 17th century has a
great influence over the mind of
Behn.As we see that the struggle of
women is prolonged from the early
century to till now. with this an
question arrises that what is the status
of women in this society? The same
thing is happening in the Rover that all
the female characters has to struggle
for their place and their own desire.we
can compare this situation of 17th
century with 21st century.

5. Struggle for status in 21st
century
Even in the 21st century,
the position of women is the same
as it was in ancient times. ... In the
last week of the year 2019, the Niti
Aayog released the Sustainable
Development Report 2019, where
the status of states has improved in
other subjects, but the status of
women still remains the same and is
serious.
It is impossible to think about the welfare
of the world unless the condition of
women is improved. It is impossible for a
bird to fly on only one wing.” — Swami
Vivekananda

6. Merging views of literature
& mankind
Alongside its importance in
the Hindu faith,
the Bhagavad Gita has
influenced many thinkers,
including Mahatma
Gandhi, Aldous
Huxley, Henry David
Thoreau, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Carl
Jung, Hermann
Hesse, Heinrich Himmler
among others. The main
source of the doctrine of
“Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture
of the human race a living
creation rather than a book, with a
new message for every age and a
new meaning for every
civilization."
Aldous Huxley, the
English writer found Gita
"the most systematic
statement of spiritual
evolution of endowing
value to mankind.", He
also felt, Gita is "one of
the most clear and
comprehensive
summaries of perennial
philosophy ever revealed;
hence its enduring value
is subject not only to India
Lord Warren Hastings the
first governor general of
British India wrote: "I
hesitate not to pronounce
the Gita a performance of
great originality, of sublimity
of conception, reasoning
and diction almost
unequalled; and a single
exception, amongst all the
known religions of
mankind."

7. APHRA BHEN V/S THOMAS
HARDY

8. Aphra behn in her novel talks
about the certainity of women
and as a whole also the
society. In The Rover she tries
to make the characters to
revolve around with the thirst
of love at the same time not
getting the deserving respect
form men as well. In almost all
her works she tries to kept the
characters little bit witty and
the plot which turns up to the
obvious ending and it matches
with the estimated believed
result of the readers.
Thomas Hardy has a pessimist view of life
and love at large he wrote novels which has
certain identifications like “the novel of
characters”. Far from the madding crowd is
also amongst the same novel.It has the class
conflict and in his novel also as compared to
Behn’s novel it has many characters and he
shows his characters revolving round to the
desire of love.In this particular novel he
showed the love triangle between the
characters and in Behn’s novel it is the same
plot which is happening.we can mark the
ending of the novel at the beginning of the
novel as knowing the intention of hardy for
making his protogonist suffer but at last
there is a happy ending so as in Aphra Behn’s
The Rover.

9. ART OF SHAPING LOVE💡
The Rover
Willmore Belvile Blunt
Hellena Florinda Lucetta
Bianca
Florinda pedro Hellena
Antonio
Far From The Madding Crowd
Gabriel oak
Fanny Bathsheba boldwood
Seargeant Troy
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