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Signs
Signs represent reputation in The Country Wife and symbolize the ways in which the characters use their reputations to advertise things about themselves which they wish to be widely known. When Sparkish first arrives at…
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China
China is used to symbolize sex throughout the play and Horner and his lovers use it as a code word. When Horner takes Margery aside in Covent Garden, stealing her away under Pinchwife’s nose…
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Blindness
Blindness is associated with love in The Country Wife, which reflects the theatrical and literary traditions which Wycherly is drawing on throughout his play. When Harcourt first meets Alithea (Sparkish, her fiancé, introduces…
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