... rights, duties and privileges in a society where male dominance is taken for granted. Willmore envisages marriage as a juggling knot, denoting a cheating, trick-playing (marriage) knot (The Rover 5.1.198: Spencer, Explanatory notes 347) The aim of this paper therefore is to show how the play manifests the restoration comedy and how at the same time Behn subverts those notions. When the theatres ... rights, duties and privileges in a society where male dominance is taken for granted. Willmore envisages marriage as a juggling knot, denoting a cheating, trick-playing (marriage) knot (The R...

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... of other men, and as a Puritan protagonist, he always has an apt biblical quotations for every missed he performs."38 Although Ephraim Cabot is ''one of O‟Neill's most remarkable creations''39, still O'Neill's love of the father is not shared by many critics. Doris Falk finds Ephraim as, ''a self-centered, loveless man who has projected his own personality into that of ... ...

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... to Lucifer the devil in exchange for 24 years of power, and Mephistopheles will remain his servant and he will satisfy his every whim. This agreement sounds rather strange (Marlowe 39), as it is senseless for a person to lose their life for the sake of power that is not eternal. The readers' attention is focused on Faustus' intention to use the ... ...

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