Ideal Husband Act One Quotes
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- Created on: 23-01-19 11:41
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- An Ideal Husband... Act One Quotes
- At the top of the staircase stands Lady Chiltern'
- Show how in a world of extravagant beauty and extraordinary setting LC is above the rest
- 'I hate being educated'
- Education is seen as pointless for women with many simply relying on their husbands intellect.
- 'London society is entirely composed of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics'
- Men can be analysed, women, merely adored'
- The presentation of women as objects to be adored, wives like accessories.
- We have married perfect husbands'
- The idealisation of men by their wives... suggests that the higher the pedal stool the harder the fall from grace
- 'One's past is what one is'
- The past is never truly forgotten, and will always affect the present. An absence of good morals will create problems later in life.
- It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable'
- Almost everyone in the play has done something dishonourable in another's eyes.
- 'You have been an Ideal always'
- Women placed their husbands on pedestals, idealised them as perfect beings, to whom they devoted their whole love.
- 'We women worship when we love'
- Women placed their husbands on pedestals, idealised them as perfect beings, to whom they devoted their whole love.
- 'Don't kill my love for you'
- Questioning of 'unconditional love'... if LC's love was really conditional, his past should not matter
- At the top of the staircase stands Lady Chiltern'
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