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'An Ideal Husband' - OBH Quotations Flashcards

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1
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“Oh! A genius in the daytime…

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…and a beauty at night”
- Lord Goring, possibly suggesting her alluring qualities

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“Let us call things…

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…by their proper names”
- Robert Chiltern
- Comes back to haunt him

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“damned nobodies…

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…talking about nothing”
- Lord Caversham

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“(leaning back on the sofa)”

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Mrs Chevely
- Power dynamic, control over Robert

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5
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“I am talking to a man…

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…who laid the foundation of his fortune by selling a Stock Exchange speculator a cabinet secret”

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6
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“Telling the Baron…

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…to buy Suez Canal shares”

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7
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“game of life”

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Mrs Chevely
- she has power over Robert and can destroy his life and reputation

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8
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“Even you are not…

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…rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past”
- Chevely

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9
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“Lady Chiltern… has a…

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…very enobling effect on life”
- Lady Markby

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10
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“It is extraordinary what…

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…astounding mistakes clever women make”
- Lord Goring, proleptic irony

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“untruthful, dishonest…

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…an evil influence”
- Lady Chiltern on Chevely

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12
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“no-one can be entirely judged…

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…by their past”
- Sir Robert
- Foreshadowing

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“One’s past…

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…is what one is”
- Chiltern, believes we are not able to change and be forgiven

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14
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“They should both represent man at his highest”

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  • Lady Chiltern
  • Public & Private life should represent ideals
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15
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“Circumstances…

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…should never alter principles”
- Lady Chiltern

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16
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“To the world, as to myself,…

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…you have been an ideal always”
- Lady Chiltern
- Reflects her high standards

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17
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“The sins…

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…of one’s youth”
- Sir Robert
- “the sins of the father” (Exodus)

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18
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“What this century worships…

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…is wealth”
- Sir Robert

19
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“At all costs…

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…one must have wealth”
- Sir Robert
- Wealth is the God of the century

20
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“I bought success…

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…at a great price”
- Sir Robert
- ref. to Chevely “you have your price”

21
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“Wealth has given me…

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…enormous power”
- Sir Robert, corruption

22
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“I received from the Baron…

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…£110,000”

23
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“When the God’s wish to punish us…

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…they answer our prayers”
- Sir Robert
- Had a successful life and is waiting to be punished

24
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“It would kill her love…

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…for me”

25
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“There is some flaw…

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…in each of us”
- Goring

26
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“The truth has always…

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…stifled me”
- Sir Robert

27
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“In every nature…

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…there are elements of weakness”
- Goring

28
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“Robert is as incapable of doing a foolish thing…

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…as he is of doing a wrong thing”
- Lady Chiltern
- Dramatic irony

29
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“a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest & dishonourable action…

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…may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shamed”
- Lady Chiltern
- Dramatic irony

30
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“He and I are closer than friends…

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…We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us.”
- Chevely

31
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“as thought she was seeing him…

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…for the first time” (S.D)
- information has changed Gertrude’s perspective on her husband

32
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“the ideal of my life!”

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Lady Chiltern
- Melodramatic

33
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“Love should forgive”

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Sir Robert
- Melodramatic
- Reference to Exodus

34
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“I am a ship without a rudder…

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…in a night without a star”
- Sir Robert
- Melodramatic, self-pity

35
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“I am ignoble in her eyes”

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Sir Robert

36
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“Pitiless in her perfection”

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Sir Robert about his wife

37
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“Sinners talk to Saints”

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Comparing him talking to Gertrude

38
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“I only war against one woman…

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…against Gertrude Chiltern”
- Chevely
- Motivated by her hatred & possible jealousy

39
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“Then I cannot forgive you…

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…there can be no forgiveness”
- Lord Goring about Chevely
- In a play about forgiveness, she is irredeemable - no chance at redemption

40
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“You can forget, men easily forget…

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…and I forgive”
- G to R

41
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“At all costs…

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…one must have wealth”

42
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“What a mask…

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…you’ve been wearing all these years”

43
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“I know the real origin…

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…of your wealth and career”

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