Comic Villains Flashcards
1
Q
What are two quotes for Lady Bracknell as an antagonist who delays the resolution?
A
- ‘Enter Lady Bracknell. The couples separate in alarm’
- ‘you are not engaged to anyone’
2
Q
Quotes for Lady Bracknell vs Bunbury?
A
- ‘made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die’
- ‘He is well punished’
- Bunbury is an allusion for Algernon’s homosexuality - representative of homophobia
3
Q
Who is the real antagonist?
A
- Lady Bracknell is obsessed with superficial status and so may be considered immoral and antagonistic, but all the characters are superficial in one way or another
- Wilde didn’t believe in moral or immoral only interesting or not
- Is she a hero? separating these superficial relations or is she ruining the aestheticism?
- Jack begins the lies and literally pretends his brother DIES
