Context For Earnest Flashcards
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Separate spheres debate
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The debate about where women belong in society, traditional mothering roles or other roles more actively benefitting sociey
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The New Woman
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A term used in 1894 by a female writer used to describe an intelligent, active and attractive woman. Was also seen as unwomanly, immoral and never to be married.
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Oscar Wilde traits
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- Flamboyant and eccentric
- Openly gay and jailed because of it
- Died divorced, broke and bankrupt in 1900
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Society
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- Wilde used society to inspire his wit
- Although he was a part of it, Wilde acknowledged that society was cruel, hypocritical and artificial
- Wilde claimed his plays depended on the audiences knowledge of manners
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Aesthetic movement
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- Art for arts sake, no deeper meaning just beauty
- Enjoyment of artifice and deception
- Wilde a collection of essays in the support of the movement
