Rover's Women and Today's Women

I found it interesting that a lot of the issues the women in Rover faced are issues that lots of women still go through today. The concept of women back then not being able to be the one to initiate a relationship today still lingers. You find some women bold enough to approach a guy (I'm using bold in a good way ladies, bold as in brave or courageous not the derogatory bold as in bold looking or ugly) but for the most part men approach women and women accept or decline. But back then, late seventeenth century, no way. Your momma and daddy chose who and when you were married.
Today many parents attempt to have some say so in who their daughters marry or date. Although there are some huge contrasts to today's parenting regulations, one thing they did back then that I noticed that still lingers today is the wanting to marry into a prestigious or wealthy family. Large numbers of women marry into a family just for the benefits. They believe that love will grow as long as they are financially comfortable, this ideology is very much like those parents of the seventeenth century who chose the most financially stable family they could find for their daughter to marry into.
I'm not trying to say that marrying into a prestigious family is bad, but if you're only doing it for money and recognition, that may be morally incorrect. The type of love that marriage requires has to be an unquestionable, unconditional, love, which is why Florinda was so tormented by the idea of marrying a man she didn't genuinely have love for.
I also liked the idea that the women, so desperate in their need to experience real love on their own feel the need to sneak out and chase the dream no matter how dangerous the risks. Very much like young women today who date someone that their parents resent, and the young couple elope in young bliss, full of love and get married in some corny chapel alone. Then they come back and announce it to their parents defiantly.
I honestly didn't enjoy this story too much but I try to find some type of theme or virtue that I can relate to in books that I really don't find too interesting.It was creative and I do understand that the time it was written in is totally different from our time, so in that aspect I do hold great respect for this play.