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What does Lord Darlington say he would’ve done for Lady W’s birthday?

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“I would have covered the whole street in front of your house w flowers for you to walk on”

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What does Lady Windermere say Lord Darlington did to annoy her?

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“You kept paying me elaborate compliments the whole evening”

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What does Lord Darlington say about conceited ppl?

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“Nowadays many conceited ppl go about Society pretending to be good”

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What does Lord Darlington say about friends?

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“I think we might be great friends. Let us be great friends. You may want a friend someday

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What does Lady Windermere say about being vile?

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“Bc the husband is vile - should the wife be vile also?

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What does Lord Darlington say most women are?

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“Most women, nowadays are rather mercenary” - L.D.
“Don’t talk about such people” - L.W

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What does Lady Windermere say about women who have fallen in a1, s1?

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“I think they should never be forgiven”

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What does Lord Darlington say about rules?

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“Life is too complex a thing to be settled by these hard + fast rules”

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What does the DoB say to Lord D?

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“I won’t let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked”

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What’s an example of what the DoB tells Lady Agatha to do?

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“Will you go out on the terrace + look at the sunset?”

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What does the DoB call her nieces?

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“My dear nieces” “Plain, dreadfully plain”

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What does Lady W say when the DoB tells her about Lord W’s affair?

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“It’s impossible! We are only married 2 years. Our child is 6 months old”

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What does the DoB tell Lady W about men?

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“Men become old but they never become good”

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What does Lady W say in her soliloquy after the DoB leaves?

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“I will find out”
“It’s some hideous mistake”
“He loves me”

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15
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What happens with the bank book?

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Lady Windermere opens the bank book + sees its normal
Then she sees a private, locked one that shows he’s giving money to Mrs E

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What does Lord W say to Lady W after she confronts him about the book?

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“I think it wrong that a wife should spy on her husband”

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What does Lord W say about Lady W’s honour?

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“Your honour is untouched, Margaret”

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What does Lady W say about how she feels in a1, s1?

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“It’s I who feel degraded! You (Lord W) don’t feel anything. I feel stained”

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What does Lord Windermere say about what Mrs E is?

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“She is alone in the world”

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What does Lord W say about what Mrs E was?

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“Mrs E was once honoured, loved, respected”

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What does Lord W say about suffering one’s faults?

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“To suffer one’s own faults - there is the sting of life”

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What does Lady W say about women who really repent?

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“If a woman really repents, she never wishes to return to the society that has made her/seen her ruin”

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What makes Lord Augustus view Mrs E in a diff way?

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“Mrs E has received a card” - Lord W
“Then she’s all right” - Lord A

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What tells us that Mrs E made her way into society? How?

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“On Thursday? With great pleasure” - Mrs E
She flatters Lady Jedburgh

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What does Lady Windermere say Lord Windermere did with her life?

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“He took it - used it - spoiled it”

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What does Lord Darlington tell Lady W life w Lord W would be like?

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“You would have to charm him. You would have to be to him the mask of his real life, the cloak to hide his secret”

27
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What does Lord Darlington ask Lady Windermere in a1, s2?

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“What does your husband give you? Nothing.”

28
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What does Mrs E switch up her views about in a1, s2?

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“I’m so sorry for what I said to you (Lady W) this afternoon about her (Mrs E)”

29
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What does Mrs E say when she finds Lady W’s letter?

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“The same words that twenty years ago wrote to her father! How bitterly I have been punished”

30
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What does Mrs E say to protect Lady W when Lord W is looking for her?

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“She has gone to bed. She said she had a headache”

31
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What does Mrs E say when Lord W leaves in the end of a2?

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“I feel a passion awakening within me that I never felt before”
“The daughter must not be like her mother”
“A moment may ruin a life”

32
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What does Lady W say at the start of a3 in her soliloquy?

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“I am cold - cold as a loveless thing”
“We make gods of men and they leave us”

33
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How does Lady W refer to the letter?

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“That fatal letter!”

34
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What does Mrs E tell Lady W she is?

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“You are on the brink of ruin, you’re on the brink of a hideous precipice”

35
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What does Lady W say about Mrs E says she opened the letter to Lord W?

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“You opened a letter of mine to my husband? You wouldn’t dare!”

36
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What does Mrs E say she’s saving Lady W from?

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“To save you from the abyss into which you’re falling”
“Save you from utter ruin”
“Save you from the consequence of a hideous mistake”

37
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What does Mrs E reveal to Lady W?

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“Your husband loves you”
“You may never meet w such love again”

38
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What does Lady W call Mrs E in act 3?

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“You talk as if you had a heart. Women life you have no hearts. Heart is not in you. You are bought and sold”

39
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How does Mrs E describe her fallen life to Lady W?

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“Fall into the pit, to be despised, mocked, abandoned, sneered at”

40
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What does Mrs E say she wont let happen to Lady W’s life?

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“I have wrecked my own life, but I will not let you wreck yours”

41
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What does Mrs E tell Lady W to do that may reveal how she feels?

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“Even if he had a thousand loves, you must stay with your child”

42
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What does Lady W do + say after agreeing to Mrs E?

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‘Holding out her hands helplessly as a child might do’
“Take me home. Take me home.”

43
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What does Cecil say about Mrs E?

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“Mrs E looked very handsome tonight, didnt she?”
“Clever woman, Mrs E”

44
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What does Dumby call women nowadays?

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“Awfully commercial, women nowadays”

45
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What does Lord A say about women w a past?

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“I prefer women w a past. They’re always so demmed amusing to talk to”

46
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What does Cecil say about gossip?

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“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip”

47
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What does Dumby say about marriage?

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“How a marriage ruins a man! It’s as demoralising as cigarettes + far more expensive”

48
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What does Lord D tell the men about the woman he loves?

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“The woman I love is not free, or thinks she isn’t”

49
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How does Mrs Erlynne self sacrifice herself?

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Reveals herself to Lord W + Lord D saying “I am afraid I took your wife’s fan in mistake for my own”

50
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What does Lady W say when she thinks about telling Lord W in the start of act 4?

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“It would kill me”
“That fatal fan of mine”
“Life is terrible”

51
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What does Lord W call Mrs E in act 4?

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“I thought Mrs E was a woman more sinned against than sinning”

52
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How does Lady W respond when Lord W calls Mrs E “as bad as a woman can be”?

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“Don’t talk so bitterly about any woman. Don’t think that ppl can be divided into the good + bad”

53
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What does Lord W tell Lady W when she tells Parker to let Mrs E in?

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“She’s a very dangerous woman. She’s the most dangerous woman I know.”

54
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What does Mrs E tell Lord W? What does this mean?

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“Manners before morals!”
Everyone has a facade of being moral

55
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What does Lord W say about Mrs E when he says he should’ve exposed her?

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“The mother she mourned as death is living a divorced woman, going about under an assumed name a bad woman preying upon life”

56
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Why does Lord W say Mrs E has no right to claim Lady W as her daughter?

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“You abandoned her when she was a child in the cradle”

57
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What does Lord W say Mrs E did for 20 years of her life?

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“Lived w/o your child, without a thought of your child”

58
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What does Mrs E say about her mother feelings?

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“They were terrible - they made me suffer”

59
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What does Mrs E tell Lord W to let Lady W cherish?

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“Let your wife cherish the memory of this dead, stainless mother”

60
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What does Lord Darlington say about gutters?

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”

61
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What does Mrs E say about ideals?

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“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better”
It’s better to be realistic

62
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What does Lady W say about her father?

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“It gave him too much pain”
“My father really died of a broken hear. His was the most ruined like I know”

63
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What does Lord W ironically say in the end of the play about evil to Lady W?

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“Into your world evil has never entered”

64
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What does Lady W tell Lord W about the world?

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“There is the same world for all of us, and good + evil, sin + innocence”

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