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By the end of Act 3, some of the characters emerge as worthy of the audience's sympathy while others do not. How does Wycherley achieve this effect?
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By the end of Act 3, some of the characters emerge as worthy of the audience's sympathy while others do not. How does Wycherley achieve this effect? William Wycherley cleverly creates likeable and villainous characters in his restoration comedy "The Country Wife". He manipulates the audience's feelings towards certain characters through their dialogue, personalities and their action in the first three acts of the play. How the play is physically performed on the stage is also another important technique the author uses to show the audience what each character is really like. This in turn makes the audience believe that the likeable characters are worthy of their sympathy, whilst the villainous characters are not. One of the first characters the audience meets is Horner, who is trying to deceive the male population in London into believing that he has caught the "pox", therefore unable to have sex. Horner is an intelligent man...
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