"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring." - Jack Act 1 Section 2
One of Wilde's epigrams: a brief line so well written remembered for its wit (and satire) even outside its original context. In context, quite wrong.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. - Algernon Moncrieff, Act 1, Section 2
reverses social conventions about love and marriage. A proposal does mark a shift in a romance but not a positive one here—an ending to romance rather than the beginning
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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means." - Miss Prism, Act 2, Section 1
expresses literary conventions of the time, characters whose situations end happily are neither especially good nor industrious
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"True. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." - Gwen Act 3 Section 1
subverts Victorian ideals, Decadent movement, h truth: how a man proposes is considered important, and how a man talks to a woman is considered important
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"thirty thousand pounds! Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young
lady... We live, I regret to say, in an age of
surfaces." - Bracknell A3S1
unsubtle hypocrisy, satire of Victorian culture
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Card 2
Front
reverses social conventions about love and marriage. A proposal does mark a shift in a romance but not a positive one here—an ending to romance rather than the beginning
Back
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. - Algernon Moncrieff, Act 1, Section 2
Card 3
Front
expresses literary conventions of the time, characters whose situations end happily are neither especially good nor industrious
Back
Card 4
Front
subverts Victorian ideals, Decadent movement, h truth: how a man proposes is considered important, and how a man talks to a woman is considered important
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