power in the world. It was a time of materialism and commerce and the people of the period emphasized money, pleasure and sex. Love and marriage were judged in terms of money. Artificiality and immorality were the defining features of the age. People looked towards relaxation and pleasure and serious things mattered less to them. The play The Way of the World by William Congreve represents the real picture of contemporary society of this time. William Congreve 's The Way of the World is the best written
hurt his upper class audience. Congreve remarks in his 'prologue ' with tongue in cheek irony: He’ll not instruct, lest it should give offence. Should he by chance a knave or fool expose, that hurts none here, sure here are none of those. The way of the World, as a social mirror
afterwards in which the new political settlements was established. The closed theatres were reopened in the Restoration Age. The Way of the World exemplifies many of the key features of the complex, multi-sided characters who combine urbanity and wit in treating love and wealth as a game they play through concealment, artifice, and plotting. William Congreve’s The Way of the World is also the best and brilliant epitome of Restoration comedy of manners. Comedy of manners is related to human behaviors. The
that centuries later were copied by many poets during the Renaissance. The Comedy of Manners of the Restoration can be divided into two main generations: The first one is the earlier 18th-Century, in which William Congreve and his work “The Way of the World” is included among another authors such as Vanbrugh and Farquar and the second one is the later 18th-Century, the later development of this genre, with Richard B. Sheridan and his work “The School for Scandal” among another authors such as Oliver
the substantial amount of potential evidence, as Woolf does not have to search for a certain time for support. Seeming relaxed, Woolf gradually builds up her argument without “threatening” her audience with her ambition, as if the story is a rare example that Woolf has to pick a particular period. After she completes the setting of the story, Woolf begins her narration with the phrase “let us suppose,” creating a conversational atmosphere, which