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Download Free PDF. Ayesha Shariff. Download PDF. A short summary of this paper. This will give you an idea of the format and content. Distribution without the written consent of PinkMonkey. No further distribution without written consent. Congreve follows the practice of the earlier Restoration dramatists by setting Act I in a public place, a fashionable chocolate-house where Mirabell and Fainall are engaged in a game of cards.

Act II is set in St. He appears to represent the typical beau of Restoration drama, but as the action progresses, Mirabell reveals his individual qualities. Millamant - The lively and beautiful heroine who is in love with Mirabell. During the course of the play, he…… Mrs. As a wealthy young widow, she married Fainall only to provide a cover for….. Along with Fainall, she performs the role of the antagonist. Lady Wishfort - She is a fifty-five year-old widow who desperately wants another husband.

She is Mrs. She detests Mirabell because he pretended to love…… Minor Characters Witwoud - He is the typical Restoration fop a foolish and conceited man, who is usually preoccupied …. He is the most irritating character in…. He is ….. Mirabell has him marry Foible to further his secret plan to win Millamant.

He plays a significant role in advancing the plot. She cooperates with Mirabell in….. She reveals Mrs. Betty - She is the waiting-woman in the chocolate-house and speaks only a few lines. The Way of the World is essentially about Mirabell and his love for Millamant, and he holds the….. Marwood perform the roles of the antagonists and villains in the play.

They are diametrically opposed to Mirabell and Millamant. Both of them have clearly defined….. Outcome - The play ends in comedy, as Mirabell defeats the counter plot of Fainall and Mrs.

He produces a deed in which Mrs. Fainall had earlier signed over her fortune in trust to him. Therefore, Fainall cannot claim this money, which no longer belongs to his wife. Fainall and….. Although the play has only one main plot and covers a single day, it is crowded with numerous events and intrigues. The plot of The Way of the World seems to follow a logic of its own. Before the action of the play unfolds, certain events are understood to have previously taken place.

Lady Wishfort is opposed to this match because her vanity has been offended by Mirabell, who earlier pretended to court her although he was really in love with Millamant, her ward. Act I opens at a fashionable chocolate-house where Fainall has just beaten Mirabell in a game of cards. Through the conversation between Witwoud and Petulant, the audience learns……. The phrase, the way of the world, indicates …..

Minor Themes Several minor themes pervade the play. There is the romantic theme of the hero who proves his worth and finally wins the fair heroine.

The importance of money to….. MOOD As the play focuses on the exposure of follies, the mood is tinged with satire. Even though the play….. He was the son of an army officer who became the steward to the Earl of Cork. Congreve studied at Kilkenny School, where he received a classical education. At the same time, Jonathan Swift, who was two years his senior, was a student at Kilkenny College. Congreve then entered Trinity College in Dublin at the age of sixteen; he was again a contemporary of Jonathan Swift at Trinity.

He, however, left Ireland before he could complete his degree. Civil disturbances during the Jacobite War of 3 PinkMonkey. Your servant, Sir. Mirabell , Waitwell. Sir Rowland, if you please.

Come, sir, will you endeavour to forget yourself—and transform into Sir Rowland? Why, sir, it will be impossible I should remember myself.

Married, knighted, and attended all in one day! The difficulty will be how to recover my acquaintance and familiarity with my former self, and fall from my transformation to a reformation into Waitwell. Lady Wishfort at her toilet , Peg waiting. I have no more patience. Fetch me the red—the red, do you hear, sweetheart? Look you how this wench stirs! Why dost thou not fetch me a little red? Didst thou not hear me, Mopus? Ratafia, fool? No, fool. Not the ratafia, fool—grant me patience!

Paint, paint, paint, dost thou understand that, changeling, dangling thy hands like bobbins before thee? Why dost thou not stir, puppet? Thou wooden thing upon wires! Lord, madam, your ladyship is so impatient. Foible has locked it up, and carried the key with her. Wench, come, come, wench, what art thou doing? Save thee, dost thou not know the bottle?

Lady Wishfort , Peg with a bottle and china cup. A cup, save thee, and what a cup hast thou brought! Dost thou take me for a fairy, to drink out of an acorn? Why didst thou not bring thy thimble?

I warrant thee. Come, fill, fill. So, again. See who that is. Here, here, under the table:—what, wouldst thou go with the bottle in thy hand like a tapster? No Foible yet? I saw her but now, as I came masked through the park, in conference with Mirabell. With Mirabell? You call my blood into my face with mentioning that traitor. She durst not have the confidence. Oh, he carries poison in his tongue that would corrupt integrity itself. If she has given him an opportunity, she has as good as put her integrity into his hands.

I hear her. Lady Wishfort , Foible. But a man so enamoured—so transported! Well, if worshipping of pictures be a sin—poor Sir Rowland, I say.

The miniature has been counted like. But hast thou not betrayed me, Foible? Hast thou not detected me to that faithless Mirabell? What hast thou to do with him in the park? Answer me, has he got nothing out of thee? So, the devil has been beforehand with me; what shall I say? Was I in fault? Humh, says he, what, you are a-hatching some plot, says he, you are so early abroad, or catering, says he, ferreting for some disbanded officer, I warrant. Half pay is but thin subsistence, says he.

Well, what pension does your lady propose? Where does he eat? Poison him? Starve him, madam, starve him; marry Sir Rowland, and get him disinherited. Oh, you would bless yourself to hear what he said. Humh, says he, I hear you are laying designs against me too, says he, and Mrs. Audacious villain! Handle me? Would he durst? Old frippery? Was there ever such a foul-mouthed fellow? Incontinently, madam. Superannuated frippery?

A slander-mouthed railer! Yes, he shall have my niece with her fortune, he shall. I hope to see him lodge in Ludgate first, and angle into Blackfriars for brass farthings with an old mitten.

Ay, dear Foible; thank thee for that, dear Foible. He has put me out of all patience. I shall never recompose my features to receive Sir Rowland with any economy of face. This wretch has fretted me that I am absolutely decayed. Look, Foible. Your ladyship has frowned a little too rashly, indeed, madam.

There are some cracks discernible in the white vernish. Let me see the glass. Why, I am arrantly flayed: I look like an old peeled wall. Thou must repair me, Foible, before Sir Rowland comes, or I shall never keep up to my picture. I warrant you, madam: a little art once made your picture like you, and now a little of the same art must make you like your picture.

Your picture must sit for you, madam. But art thou sure Sir Rowland will not fail to come? Or will a not fail when he does come?

Will he be importunate, Foible, and push? For if he should not be importunate I shall never break decorums. I shall die with confusion if I am forced to advance—oh no, I can never advance; I shall swoon if he should expect advances.

No, I hope Sir Rowland is better bred than to put a lady to the necessity of breaking her forms. But a little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. Yes, but tenderness becomes me best—a sort of a dyingness. You see that picture has a sort of a—ha, Foible?

A swimmingness in the eyes. My niece affects it; but she wants features. Is Sir Rowland handsome? Is he handsome? Is he? I shall save decorums if Sir Rowland importunes. I have a mortal terror at the apprehension of offending against decorums.

Let my things be removed, good Foible. Fainall , Foible. O Foible, I have been in a fright, lest I should come too late. Nay, nay, put not on that strange face. O dear madam, I beg your pardon. It was not my confidence in your ladyship that was deficient; but I thought the former good correspondence between your ladyship and Mr. Mirabell might have hindered his communicating this secret. O dear madam, Mr. Mirabell is such a sweet winning gentleman.

But your ladyship is the pattern of generosity. Sweet lady, to be so good! Mirabell cannot choose but be grateful. I find your ladyship has his heart still. Now, madam, I can safely tell your ladyship our success: Mrs. Marwood had told my lady, but I warrant I managed myself. I turned it all for the better. I told my lady that Mr. Mirabell railed at her. Madam, I beg your ladyship to acquaint Mr. Mirabell of his success.

I would be seen as little as possible to speak to him—besides, I believe Madam Marwood watches me. Madam, your servant. Indeed, Mrs. Engine, is it thus with you? Are you become a go-between of this importance?

Yes, I shall watch you. My friend Fainall, have you carried it so swimmingly? Your loathing is not from a want of appetite then, but from a surfeit. Else you could never be so cool to fall from a principal to be an assistant, to procure for him! A pattern of generosity, that I confess.

Well, Mr. Fainall, you have met with your match. Woman, woman! Man should have his head and horns, and woman the rest of him. Poor, simple fiend! Here comes the good lady, panting ripe, with a heart full of hope, and a head full of care, like any chymist upon the day of projection.

O dear Marwood, what shall I say for this rude forgetfulness? But my dear friend is all goodness. But I have such an olio of affairs, really I know not what to do. Methinks Sir Wilfull should rather think of marrying than travelling at his years. I hear he is turned of forty. It will be time enough when he comes back, and has acquired discretion to choose for himself.

Methinks Mrs. Millamant and he would make a very fit match. He may travel afterwards. I assure you I will; I value your judgment extremely. Come, come, Foible—I had forgot my nephew will be here before dinner—I must make haste. Dear friend, excuse me. Marwood , Mrs. Millamant , Mincing. That horrid fellow Petulant has provoked me into a flame—I have broke my fan—Mincing, lend me yours. Nay, he has done nothing; he has only talked. Nay, he has said nothing neither; but he has contradicted everything that has been said.

For my part, I thought Witwoud and he would have quarrelled. If we had that liberty, we should be as weary of one set of acquaintance, though never so good, as we are of one suit, though never so fine. A fool and a doily stuff would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. They are such drap de Berri things! Or what think you of the playhouse? A fine gay glossy fool should be given there, like a new masking habit, after the masquerade is over, and we have done with the disguise.

If you would but appear barefaced now, and own Mirabell, you might as easily put off Petulant and Witwoud as your hood and scarf. Indeed, Millamant, you can no more conceal it than my Lady Strammel can her face, that goodly face, which in defiance of her Rhenish-wine tea will not be comprehended in a mask.

My aunt is not dressing here; their folly is less provoking than your malice. Millamant , Mrs. The town has found it? What has it found? That Mirabell loves me is no more a secret than it is a secret that you discovered it to my aunt, or than the reason why you discovered it is a secret.

O silly! I could laugh immoderately. Poor Mirabell! His constancy to me has quite destroyed his complaisance for all the world beside. I swear I never enjoined it him to be so coy. But I despair to prevail, and so let him follow his own way. Pardon me, dear creature, I must laugh; ha, ha, ha! Mirabell and you both may think it a thing impossible, when I shall tell him by telling you—.

O madam, why, so do I. And yet the creature loves me, ha, ha, ha! How can one forbear laughing to think of it? I am a sibyl if I am not amazed to think what he can see in me. If you could but stay for me, I should overtake you—but that cannot be. Well, that thought makes me melancholic. Desire Mrs.

You shall hear it, madam. Raillery, raillery, madam; we have no animosity. We hit off a little wit now and then, but no animosity. The falling out of wits is like the falling out of lovers:—we agree in the main, like treble and bass. Ha, Petulant? Ay, when he has a humour to contradict, then I contradict too. What, I know my cue. Then we contradict one another like two battledores; for contradictions beget one another like Jews. If I have a humour to prove it, it must be granted.

Ay, upon proof positive it must; but upon proof presumptive it only may. And for the rest which is to follow in both cases, a man may do it without book. Sir Wilfull Witwoud in a riding dress , Mrs. Marwood , Petulant , Witwoud , Footman. Not I:—yes, I think it is he. Ha, friend? My aunt, sir? Yes my aunt, sir, and your lady, sir; your lady is my aunt, sir. Why, what dost thou not know me, friend?

Why, then, send somebody hither that does. How long hast thou lived with thy lady, fellow, ha? Why, then, belike thou dost not know thy lady, if thou seest her. Why, truly, sir, I cannot safely swear to her face in a morning, before she is dressed.

Well, prithee try what thou canst do; if thou canst not guess, enquire her out, dost hear, fellow? And tell her her nephew, Sir Wilfull Witwoud, is in the house.

Hold ye, hear me, friend, a word with you in your ear: prithee who are these gallants? Witwoud, your brother is not behindhand in forgetfulness. I fancy he has forgot you too. This is a vile dog, I see that already. No offence? Ha, ha, ha. To him, to him, Petulant, smoke him. It seems as if you had come a journey, sir; hem, hem. If I am not mistaken, you are Sir Wilfull Witwoud? Brother Antony! What, dost thou not know me? Your servant? Why, yours, sir.

Why, brother Wilfull of Salop, you may be as short as a Shrewsbury cake, if you please. You could intreat to be remembered then to your friends round the Wrekin. Of the family of the Furnivals? Ay, ay, but that was but for a while. Not long, not long; pshaw, I was not in my own power then.

An orphan, and this fellow was my guardian; ay, ay, I was glad to consent to that man to come to London. He had the disposal of me then. If I had not agreed to that, I might have been bound prentice to a feltmaker in Shrewsbury: this fellow would have bound me to a maker of felts.

Belike I may, madam. I may chance to sail upon the salt seas, if my mind hold. I direct my discourse to the lady, sir. Yes, I have settled my concerns, I may say now, and am minded to see foreign parts.

If an how that the peace holds, whereby, that is, taxes abate. I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it I keep it. But I have thoughts to tarry a small matter in town, to learn somewhat of your lingo first, before I cross the seas. Cousin Witwoud, your servant; Mr. Petulant, your servant. Nephew, you are welcome again. Will you drink anything after your journey, nephew, before you eat? However, I thank you for your courteous offer.

Marwood talk apart. Sweetheart, can you help me to a pair of slippers? Fie, fie, nephew, you would not pull off your boots here? Go down into the hall:—dinner shall stay for you.

Gentlemen, will you walk? Marwood , Fainall. And I, it seems, am a husband, a rank husband, and my wife a very errant, rank wife,—all in the way of the world. Then shake it off: you have often wished for an opportunity to part, and now you have it. Damn him, that had been mine—had you not made that fond discovery. That had been forfeited, had they been married. They may prove a cap of maintenance to you still, if you can away with your wife. You married her to keep you; and if you can contrive to have her keep you better than you expected, why should you not keep her longer than you intended?

My lady loves her, and will come to any composition to save her reputation. Take the opportunity of breaking it just upon the discovery of this imposture. My lady will be enraged beyond bounds, and sacrifice niece, and fortune and all at that conjuncture. And let me alone to keep her warm: if she should flag in her part, I will not fail to prompt her. Let me see. I never loved her, or if I had, why that would have been over too by this time.

Weary of her I am and shall be. Thus far concerning my repose. I will contrive a letter which shall be delivered to my lady at the time when that rascal who is to act Sir Rowland is with her. It shall come as from an unknown hand—for the less I appear to know of the truth the better I can play the incendiary. Besides, I would not have Foible provoked if I could help it, because, you know, she knows some passages.

Nay, I expect all will come out. But let the mine be sprung first, and then I care not if I am discovered. I have already a deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her, and that you shall partake at least.

I hope you are convinced that I hate Mirabell now? No, by this kiss. Let husbands be jealous, but let the lover still believe: or if he doubt, let it be only to endear his pleasure, and prepare the joy that follows, when he proves his mistress true.

All husbands must or pain or shame endure; The wise too jealous are, fools too secure. Lady Wishfort and Foible. Yes, madam. I have put wax-lights in the sconces, and placed the footmen in a row in the hall, in their best liveries, with the coachman and postillion to fill up the equipage. Have you pulvilled the coachman and postillion, that they may not stink of the stable when Sir Rowland comes by? And are the dancers and the music ready, that he may be entertained in all points with correspondence to his passion?

Well, and how shall I receive him? In what figure shall I give his heart the first impression? There is a great deal in the first impression. Shall I sit? No, that will be too sudden. Yes; and then as soon as he appears, start, ay, start and be surprised, and rise to meet him in a pretty disorder.

Yes; oh, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion. It shows the foot to advantage, and furnishes with blushes and re-composing airs beyond comparison. Call her down, Foible; bring her hither. When they are together, then come to me, Foible, that I may not be too long alone with Sir Rowland. Madam, I stayed here to tell your ladyship that Mr. Shall I tell Mr. Mirabell that you are at leisure?

What would the dear man have? I am thoughtful and would amuse myself; bid him come another time. Ay, if you please, Foible, send him away, or send him hither, just as you will, dear Foible. Shall I? Ay, let the wretch come. Dear Fainall, entertain Sir Wilfull:—thou hast philosophy to undergo a fool; thou art married and hast patience. I would confer with my own thoughts.

I am obliged to you that you would make me your proxy in this affair, but I have business of my own. O Sir Wilfull, you are come at the critical instant. Yes, my aunt will have it so. Sir Wilfull , Millamant. Nay, nay, cousin. I have forgot my gloves. Pshaw, what a vixen trick is this? Nay, now a has seen me too. Well, well, I shall understand your lingo one of these days, cousin; in the meanwhile I must answer in plain English.

Not at present, cousin. Yes, I made bold to see, to come and know if that how you were disposed to fetch a walk this evening; if so be that I might not be troublesome, I would have sought a walk with you.

Look ye, look ye, you do? Here are choice of pastimes here in town, as plays and the like, that must be confessed indeed—. You have nothing further to say to me? But spare to speak and spare to speed, as they say.

If it is of no great importance, Sir Wilfull, you will oblige me to leave me: I have just now a little business. Enough, enough, cousin. Yes, yes, all a case. Cousin, your servant. Millamant , Mirabell. Do you lock yourself up from me, to make my search more curious?

Or is this pretty artifice contrived, to signify that here the chase must end, and my pursuit be crowned, for you can fly no further? Oh, I should think I was poor and had nothing to bestow if I were reduced to an inglorious ease, and freed from the agreeable fatigues of solicitation. But do not you know that when favours are conferred upon instant and tedious solicitation, that they diminish in their value, and that both the giver loses the grace, and the receiver lessens his pleasure?

It may be in things of common application, but never, sure, in love. There is not so impudent a thing in nature as the saucy look of an assured man confident of success: the pedantic arrogance of a very husband has not so pragmatical an air. Or will you be contented with the first now, and stay for the other till after grace?

My dear liberty, shall I leave thee? My faithful solitude, my darling contemplation, must I bid you then adieu? Ay-h, adieu. My morning thoughts, agreeable wakings, indolent slumbers, all ye douceurs , ye sommeils du matin , adieu. Idle creature, get up when you will. Ay, as wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweetheart, and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar—I shall never bear that.

Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange and well-bred. Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while, and as well-bred as if we were not married at all. Have you any more conditions to offer? Hitherto your demands are pretty reasonable. To have my closet inviolate; to be sole empress of my tea-table, which you must never presume to approach without first asking leave.

And lastly, wherever I am, you shall always knock at the door before you come in. These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife. Your bill of fare is something advanced in this latter account. Well, have I liberty to offer conditions:—that when you are dwindled into a wife, I may not be beyond measure enlarged into a husband?

I thank you. Imprimis , then, I covenant that your acquaintance be general; that you admit no sworn confidant or intimate of your own sex; no she friend to screen her affairs under your countenance, and tempt you to make trial of a mutual secrecy.

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