Critics Flashcards
POWELL
this era was…
“Crowded with Sir Robert Chilterns”
OSCAR WILDE ON ART
- Oscar Wilde himself directly saying his opinion on how art should be.
- ART FOR ART SAKE: art shouldn’t be influenced by politics, science or morality- but expressed however it is wished.
“Art should have no other aim than art”
HAROLD BLOOM
“Characters ‘regard each other as ‘pure’ representations’”
PETER RABY
“Reveals the gap between moral posturing and the reality of public power”
KERRY POWELL
“Women were creatures of vast feeling but scant intellect”
NEAL
“Insincere society that refuses to acknowledge its reliance on secrecy and public masks”
PHILIP COHEN
“AIH hints at social and political corruption”
PEARSALL
“the dignified but decadent upper class ‘did not give a damn about conventional morality’”
JOHN SLOAN
“Goring is ‘an androgynous figure combining male and female qualities’”
OSCAR WILDE ON PAST
“‘Sooner or later we shall have to pay for what we do… no one should be entirely judged by their past’”
SHAW
“Selfish, dishonest and third rate”
About Cheveley
KATHARINE WORTH
Lady Chiltern is… “priggish and naive”
Wilde mimicking Lord Goring in his own opinion
NOSEY
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people’s.”
Wilde mimicking Lord Goring in his own opinion, “only people that enter parliament are..” quote
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious”
Gagnier
“criticized and attracted the upper classes”
