Edmond's mockery stresses the gulf between the father's older world-view and the son's fashionable scepticism. ... This is reinforced by using the love test scene of the play as an example, proposing that this scene is a variant of the wedding ceremony, where male dominance is once again emphasised, both in terms of authoritarian and procreator. ...

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