The Rover
What are the motifs in The Rover by Aphra Behn?
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Prostitution is a recurring idea. For women without a man or a family fortune to keep them, with no education and no money of their own, prostitution was a way to capitalize on their youth to try to gain a measure of independence and to avoid downright poverty.