English 3700 Lecture Notes - The Younger Generation
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Mother is the matchmaker, wants lucinda to marry. Mother is bargaining with her daughter, interference suggest a love triangle. Sees lucinda as a babymaker, piece of horseflesh. Richard steele does not condone this view of women. Discussion questions: by conscious, steel means mutually understanding. how are the lovers conscious , mutually understanding, aware of what is going on. The younger generation is more perceptive and aware about what is going on unlike the older generation: aware of the social statues, balanced relationships, marriage will be union of companions, at the beginning of act. One, scene two, a stage direction indicates that bevil jr. is reading. What is he reading and why is it important: shows his education, reading is foreshadowing the end. If they are patient they will get what they want: greater intelligence, interested in self-improvement, tool for moral development, describe the character of cimberton. In a conversation between indiana and bevil jr. , the subject of the opera arises.
