The Rover Aphra Behn, fiche de personnages + résumé

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Valeria: She is Hellena’s cousin. She accompanies the girls to the carnival. She helps Florinda getting Callis out of the way and distracts Don Pedro for her to flee and marry Colonel Belvile. She marries Frederic at the same time.

Lucetta: She is a spanish prostitute who makes Blunt think that se is in love with him and then trick him and steals all of his clothes and belongings.

Don Pedro: He is Hellena’s and Florinda’s older brother. He is a noble spanish man, friend of the king’s son. he controls his sisters’ lives: he wants Florinda to to marry his friend Antonio, and wants Hellena to become a nun. For him marriage is a simple arrangement for money. Don Pedro is always running after his sister because they don’t want to obey him and evade from him. He also tries to get Angellica for himself. In the end he gives his blessing to Hellena and Florinda’s marriages, even though he was against it the beginning of the play.

Don Antonio: He is the Viceroy’s son and Don Pedro’s friend. Don Pedro wants him to marry his sister Florinda. He accepts but then falls for Angellica and decides to be her partner and « buys » her.

Captain Willmore: He is « The Rover » he likes to wander the seas. He is always looking for women and doesn’t really care about their feelings. During the Carnival he spends his time switching between Helena and Angellica procuring jealousy between the two girls. In the end he chooses Hellena and they get engaged.

Colonel Belvile: He is English and is in love with Florinda, who he met in Pamplona, where he protected her and her brother from danger. Eve though her brother was against he married Florinda.

Blunt: He is an English countryman who gets ticked by a Spanish prostitute named Lucetta. He is naive and ends up naked because all his clothes and belongings being stolen from him by Lucetta and Sancho. He almost raped Florinda

Frederick: He is an Englishman. He flirts with Valeria, and they get married at the same time as Florinda and Belvile. Though he agreed with Blunt to rape Florinda earlier.