Critics Reversed Flashcards
this era was…
“Crowded with Sir Robert Chilterns”
POWELL
“Art should have no other aim than art”
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.
“Characters ‘regard each other as ‘pure’ representations’”
HAROLD BLOOM
“Reveals the gap between moral posturing and the reality of public power”
PETER RABY
“Women were creatures of vast feeling but scant intellect”
KERRY POWELL
“Insincere society that refuses to acknowledge its reliance on secrecy and public masks”
NEAL
“AIH hints at social and political corruption”
PHILIP COHEN
“the dignified but decadent upper class ‘did not give a damn about conventional morality’”
PEARSALL
“Goring is ‘an androgynous figure combining male and female qualities’”
JOHN SLOAN
“‘Sooner or later we shall have to pay for what we do… no one should be entirely judged by their past’”
OSCAR WILDE ON PAST
“Selfish, dishonest and third rate”
About Cheveley
SHAW
Lady Chiltern is… “priggish and naive”
KATHARINE WORTH
