ENGL 221 Lecture 30: William Congreve - part 2
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Mrs. marwood is lady wishfort"s friend who has a conversation with mrs. Marwood derives her self worth from herself: both women still like mirabell and he turns down mrs. marwood. She goes after mr. fainall instead, the very husband of the women she talks to about love: mr. fainall is actually cheating on mrs. fainall with mrs. marwood. They"re not just seeing each other, they are doing it to get mirabell to marry millamant so that the dowry that would have been. Millamant will go to mrs. fainall so technically it goes to mr. fainall and then mrs. marwood would benefit when they run off together: another layer of dissembling. In the end, waitwell and foible come in. Waitwell pretends to be sir rolland and foible tries to play him up to lady. Miniatures - mini portraits people commissioned to carry around of. To people of that time, these were like a part of them.
