Faithfulness does not seem to be a common practice that men engage in during the English Restoration. In Some Reflections Upon Marriage Mary Astell purposes the idea that women should not marry and risk ending the human race until they are given the rights they deserve in marriage. Astell writes about the non-ideal way of how marriages were set up during her time. "The late seventeenth century's Mary Astell has been deemed by many present-day philosophers and historians to be the first female English feminist" (Bryson, 40). Astell points out that the marriages with money but no love led to the horrific life of a depressed wife and a life of lust for the husband with other woman. William Congreve shows an audience in 1700 during the premier of the play The Way of the World that a poor marriage leads to unfaithful lust outside of the marriage and those...