The Rover
by Aphra Behn
Foil
Explanation and Analysis—Blunt and the Cavaliers:

Ned Blunt acts as a foil for the other male characters in the play, especially Willmore and Belvile. While Blunt superficially has several things in common with his friends—they are all exiled Cavaliers who seek to have fun at Carnival—he is the foolish and brutish antithesis to the other Englishmen. Willmore and Belvile also act as foils for each other, as their contrasting relationships with women radically differentiate their characterization.