The Rover

 Angellica Character

Angellica is a famous courtesan in Spain. She is mistress of a once- powerful, deceased Spanish general, and she has returned to Naples to put herself up for sale. for sale. Her monthly fee is 1,000 Spanish crowns, and her primary potential suitors are Don Pedro and Don Antonio. Angellica is a beautiful woman, who, we are led to believe, would have no problem securing the monthly fee for which she has put herself on the market. Don Pedro and Don Antonio both agree to pay the sum, however Angellica falls in love with Willmore, to whom she promises her heart. When she discovers that Willmore has not been true to her, she confronts him with a pistol, and threatens to kill him with it.

Angellica is a courtesan, a paid- for social and sexual companion who recently returned to Naples looking to take on new clients. Schott said Angelica represents a character who at the time was unheard of- an independent, self- sufficient woman who was comfortable with her sexuality

Consider  the financial negotiations which one makes before marrying a prospective bride the same as prostitution. Do you agree?

Angellica makes a good point, marriage and prostitution are both relationships that are customarily contingent, to varying degrees, upon financial considerations. They are of course not entirely the same, but it would seem hypocritical to denounce one and participate in the other. The point of this statement is to acknowledge that Marriage that marriage can be just as amoral as prostitution if one considers placing a monetary value on love the reason behind prostitutions behind prostitution’s a morality.