these words she shows her love for Mirabell and hatred for Mr Fainall Her husband also cheats on her with Mrs Marwood These love stories show how people break trust Even marriage does not stop them This shows how weak their moral values are City Life and Rich People This play shows rich people in London They go to parties and play cards They talk cleverly and jokingly They do not care about truth or kindness They only care about love marriage and money Lady Wishfort Millamant and Fainall live like this They follow high society rules In the following way Fainall makes a humorous remark about city women Now I remember last night was one of their cabal-nights they have em three times a week and meet by turns at one another s apartments to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week Fake Love and Marriage In this play marriage is not for love It is for money or gain Mirabell wants to marry Millamant for her money Through the subsequent words Mirabell falsely shows his love for Millamant I like her with all her faults nay like her for her faults Lady Wishfort wants her daughter to marry a rich man Mrs Fainall once loved Mirabell and then married Fainall Nobody truly loves each other Love is a tool to get something This fake love makes the story funny and sad So the play clearly shows false love and marriage Old People and Fashion Even old people try to act young Lady Wishfort is fifty-five But she still wants to look pretty She uses makeup and dresses like a young girl The following quote shows her extreme vanity I look like an old peeled wall Thou must repair me Foible before Sir Rowland comes She also wants to marry again It looks very funny Congreve shows how people fear age They want to live fake lives They care more about looks than truth This also shows how silly fashion was at that time In summary Congreve uses his play to show the truth The rich people in this play are selfish greedy and fake They cheat each other and break trust They care only about looks love-games and money They do not follow real values Congreve laughs at them through his story But he also teaches us a lesson We should not follow such fake lives His play is a mirror to the bad sides of his society