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“A large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love”

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Act 1, stage directions
Themes: love, wealth

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Lady Basildon: “Ah! I hate being educated!”

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Act 1
Themes: women, class

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Mabel Chiltern: “Oh, I love London Society!…It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics”

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Act 1
Themes: Gender, class

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“Venetian red hair, aqualine nose….. she is in heliotrope, with diamons. She looks rather like an orchid and makes great demands on one’s curioristy………A work of art, on the whole, but showing the influence of too many school”

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Act 1, stage directions describing Mrs Cheveley
Themes: Gender, class, temptation

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Mrs Cheveley: “I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it”

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Act 1
Themes: Gender, beauty, oppression

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Mrs Cheveley: “Men can be analysed, women… merely adored”

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Act 1
Themes: Gender

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Mrs Marchmont: “Men are so painfully unobservant!”

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Act 1
Themes: Gender, being observant

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R Chiltern: “This Argentine canal scheme is a commonplace Stock Exchange swindle.”

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Act 1
Themes: Morality

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R Chiltern: “You seem to be unable to realise that you are talking to an English gentleman”

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Act 1
Themes: Gender, morality, class

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Mrs Cheveley: “This is the game of life as we all have to play it”

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Act 1 (referring to her blackmail)
Themes: morality

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Mrs Cheveley: “Scandals used to lend charm, or at least interest, to man - now they crush him. And yours is a very nasty scandal”

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Act 1
Themes: Reputation, morality

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Mrs Cheveley: “Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”

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Act 1
Themes: Class, secrets

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Lady Chiltern: “She was untruthful, dishonest, an evil influence”

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Referring to Mrs Cheveley
Act 1
Themes: Morality

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R Chiltern: “No one should be judged entirely by their past”

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Act 1
Themes: Morality, reputation

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Lady C: “One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”

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Act 1
Themes: Past, morality

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R Chiltern: “We all make mistakes”

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Act 1
Themes: Morality

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R Chiltern: “Truth is a very complex thing”

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Talking to Lady C
Act 1
Themes: Honesty, morality

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Lady C: “Circumstances should never alter principles!”

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Talking to R.C
Act 1
Themes: Morality

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Lady C: “It is power to do good that is fine”

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Talking to RC
Act 1
Themes: Morality, power

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Lady C: “be that ideal still. That great inheritance throw not away - that tower of ivory do not destroy”

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Talking to RC
Act 1
Themes: Morality, love, idealisation

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R Chiltern: “Put out the lights, Mason, put out the lights!”

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After telling Lady C he has no secrets - Othello reference after he kills his wife
Act 1
Themes: Shame, morality

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R Chiltern: “I would have lost the love of the one woman in the world I worship”

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Talking about if he’d told Gertrude
Act 2
Themes: Love, honesty, morality

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R Chiltern: “I was twenty-two at the time, and I had the double misfortune of being well-born and poor”

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Act 2
Themes: Class, morality, excuses

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R Chiltern: “Is it fair that the folly, the sin of one’s youth, if men choose to call it a sin, should wreck a life like mine?”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality, excuses

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R Chiltern: “Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth.”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality, excuses, class/wealth

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R Chiltern: “preached to us the most marvellous of all gospels, the gospel of gold”

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About Baron Arnheim
Themes: Morality, temptation, wealth

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R Chiltern: “with a strange smile on his pale, curved lips, he led me through his wonderful picture gallery, showed me his tapestries, his enamels, his jewels, his carved ivories”

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About Baron Arnheim
Act 2
Themes: Temptation, morality

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R Chiltern: “I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to”

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Act 2
Themes: temptation, morality

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Lord G: “Did you never suffer any regret for what you had done?”
R Chiltern: “No. I felt that I had fought the century with its own weapons, and won”

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Act 2
Themes: Temptation, morality

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R Chiltern: “I have paid conscience money many times.. The sum Baron Arnheim gave me I have distributed twice over in public charities since then”

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Act 2
Themes: Regret, morality

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Lord Goring: “Something about ambition that is unscrupulous always”

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Act 2
Themes: Ambition, morality

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Lord Goring: “Lady Chiltern… I think that… often you don’t make sufficient allowances”

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Act 2
Themes: Idealisation

33
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Lady C: “Robert is as incapable of doing a foolish thing as he is a wrong thing.”

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Act 2
Themes: love, idealisation

34
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Lord Goring: “It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world”

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Act 2
Themes: Love

35
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Mrs C: “A diamond snake-brooch with a ruby, a rather large ruby”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality, wealth

36
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Mrs C: “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality, relationships

37
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Mrs C: “It is because your husband is himself fraudulent and dishonest that we pair so well together.”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality

38
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Lady C: “Don’t come near me. Don’t touch me. I feel as if you had soiled me forever.”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality, love, idealisation

39
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Lady C: “when I think that I made of a man like you my ideal! The ideal of my life!”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality, idealisation, love

40
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R Chiltern: “Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of clay, women as well as men”

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Act 2
Themes: Love, gender, idealisation

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R Chiltern: “When we men love women, we love them knowing their weakness, their follies, their imperfections”

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Act 2
Themes: Love, idealisation, gender

42
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R Chiltern: “All sins, except a sin against itself, love should forgive”

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Act 2
Themes: Morality, love

43
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R Chiltern: “You made your false idol of me, and I had not the courage to come down, show you my wounds”

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Act 2
Themes: Idealisation, love - biblical reference

44
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R Chiltern: “Let women make no more ideals of men!”

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Act 2
Themes: Love, idealisation, gender

45
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R Chiltern: “You whom I have so wildly loved - have ruined mine!”

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Act 2
Themes: Love, gender

46
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“Her sobs are like the sobs of a child”

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Stage directions, Act 2
After R.C leaves her in a room alone
Themes: Love, idealisation, gender

47
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Lord G: “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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Themes: Love, confidence

48
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“I want you. I trust you. I am coming to you. Gertrude”

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Gertrude’s letter to Goring
Act 3
Themes: Relationships, naivity

49
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Lord G: “It is the growth of the moral sense in women that makes marriage such a hopeless, one-sided institution”

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Act 3
Themes: Marriage, morality, gender

50
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“Lamia-like, she is in green and silver. She has a cloak of black satin, lined with dead rose-leaf silk”

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Stage directions describing Mrs Cheveley, Act 3
Themes: Morality
Lamia is a mythical half-snake, half-woman

51
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Lord C: “No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir.”

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Act 3
Themes: Gender, intelligence

52
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R Chiltern: “I would to God I had died before I had been so horribly tempted, or had fallen so low.”

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Act 3
Themes: Regret, morality love (wishes Gertrude didn’t hate him)

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R Chiltern: “I am a ship without a rudder in a night without a star”

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Act 3
Themes: Marriage, love (Gertrude is the star)

54
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R Chiltern: “She does not know what weakness or temptation is. I am of clay like other men”

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Act 3
Themes: Gender, temptation, idealisation

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Mrs C: “You were the only person I had ever cared for, if I ever have cared for anybody”

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Act 3
Themes: Love, morality

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Lord G: “self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself”

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Act 3
Themes: Sacrifice, relationships

57
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Mrs C: “How you men stand up for each other!”
Lord G: “How you women war against each other!”

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Act 3
Themes: Gender, relationships

58
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“Tears at the bracelet in a paroxysm of rage, with inarticulate sounds”

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Stage directions, Mrs C tries to get the bracelet off, Act 3
Themes: Morality, humanity

59
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“A mask has fallen from her. She is, for the moment, dreadful to look at.”

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Stage directions, when Mrs C realises that she has been caught for theft, Act 3
Themes: Appearance vs reality, morality

60
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Mrs C: “I find that somehow Gertrude Chiltern’s dying speech and confession has strayed into my pocket”

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Act 3
Themes: Morality, relationships

61
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“Her face is illumined with evil triumph…. her last glance is like a swift arrow”

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Stage directions as Mrs C leaves, Act 3
Themes: Morality, victory

62
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Lord G: “If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it”

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Act 4
Themes: Marriage, morality

63
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R Chiltern: “This letter of yours, Gertrude, makes me feel that nothing that the world may do can hurt me now”

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Act 4
Themes: Love, happiness

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Lord G: “Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the fruits of his ambition?”

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Act 4
Themes: Love

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Lord G: “Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon, not punishment, is their mission”

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Act 4
Themes: Love, gender

66
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Lord G: “A man’s life is of more value than a woman’s”

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Act 4
Themes: Gender, power

67
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Lord G: “A woman’s life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man’s life progresses”

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Act 4
Themes: Gender

68
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Lord G: “A woman who can keep a man’s love, and love him in return, has done all the world wants of women”

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Act 4
Themes: Gender, love

69
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Lord G: “We men and women are not made to accept such sacrifices from eachother.”

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Act 4
Themes: Gender

70
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Lord G: “Besides, Robert has been punished enough.”
Lady C: “We have both been punished. I set him up too high”

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Act 4
Themes: Morality, idealisation, punishment

71
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Lord G: “If he has fallen from his alter, do not thrust him into the mire”

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Act 4
Themes: Morality, marriage

72
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Lady C: “A man’s life is of more value than a woman’s”

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She’s parroting Lord G’s words
Act 4
Themes: Gender

73
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R Chiltern: “Gertrude, you are to me the white image of all good things, and sin can never touch you”

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Act 4
Themes: Love, idealisation

74
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Mabel C: “An ideal husband! Oh, I don’t think I should like that. It sounds like something in the next world”

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Act 4
Themes: Marriage, love, idealisation

75
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Mabel C: “All I want to be…. to be… oh! A real wife to him”

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Act 4
Themes: Marriage, gender

76
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Robert C: “Is it love you feel for me, or is it pity merely?”
Lady C: (kisses him) “It is love, Robert. Love, and only love. For both of us a new life is beginning.”

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Act 4
Themes: marriage, love
Final line of the play - some modern productions leave out Gertrude’s final line

English Lit A Level - An Ideal Husband (3 decks)

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