Oscar Wilde, Victorian Era, Act 1 (Earnest) Flashcards
Victorian Era (1830-1901) named after
Queen Victoria
years that mark the Victorian Era are those leading to … and then …
Queen V’s crowning; her death
Queen Vic crowned in
1837
… becomes the center of the Western World
London
“the sun never …”
sets on the British Empire
rapid, unregulated … (shelley’s warning not heeded)
- … and .. industry for …
- … plants
- invention of … (1st message: …)
- steam powered …
- … –> Queen V was the 1st to have …
industrialization; iron; steel; ships; textile; telegraph; what hath God wrought?; railways; photographs; photo taken of her
industry requires … for success
raw materials
industry requires raw materials. 2 concepts emerge:
- …. –> the act of a country … its … through the acquisition of ….
- …. –> establishment of a … of one territory by a … in a different territory and subsequent …, …, and …
imperialism; expanding; power; territories;
colonialism; colony; political power; maintenance; expansion; exploitation of that colony
imperialism and colonialism forms …, these are …
British arrangement: raw materials for .. and …
empire; ideologies; Christianity; education
ideology: a system of ideas whose function it is to make social arrangements appear as though they were the
products of nature
ideology requires …
if an ideology is successful, the people who are disadvantaged by it believe that it is … and contribute to its …
e.g.
- … (17??- 1865) –> …, those who were disadvantaged, were most severe
- …. - 12th century-1833 –> … and …, sets sights on poor countries like Ireland (Irish not allowed to eat anything but …, couldn’t practice …), still today, … parts of Ireland
- Irish Potato Famine-1845-1849 –> worst year was … - people tried to eat …, came over to … in “…” —> black ‘47
- Parliament takes control of … 1857 –> nowhere near each other, different …
- Queen Victoria is crowned … of … 1876
active participation; natural; success; American slave trade; low class whites; English slavery; imperialism and colonialism; potatoes; Catholicism; 7 northern; 1847; grass; US; coffin ships; India; cultures; empress; India
writers: Joseph Conrad wrote …, about …
Heart of Darkness; imperialism
The Importance of Being Earnest by … author Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
son of … - … and …. and …, wrote about … and ….
Irish; Sir William Wilde; eye; ear surgeon; writer; medicine; Irish folklore
Wilde’s mother was … Wilde: an Italian woman with … “….” (…) to write … during period of England’s imperialist reign over Ireland
Jane; pseudonym; Speranza; Hope; illegal Irish nationalist poetry
Irish had codes and code songs. Green resembled … and …
free Ireland; Catholicism
Wilde fluent in …, …, …, and …, studied at … College in …, went to … and meets … and … –> form intellectual, artistic movement known as …
Gaelic; French; German; English; Trinity; Dublin; Oxford; Walter Pate; John Ruskin; aestheticism
aestheticism: like a response to …, supports an emphasis on art’s … value rather than its …/…/… themes
Romanticism; aesthetic value; socio-political/religious/moral
aestheticism was met with dissent: called “….” because of its focus on … and …, its delight in …, …., …, “…,” …, … and …
the Decadent Movement; excess; artificiality; perversion; crude humor; material excess; pursuing all desires; self disgust; world weariness; skepticism
“…” ~ Oscar Wilde
art for art’s sake
1884- Wilde marries … (2 sons- ‘85 and ‘86- Cyril and Vyvyan)
1885- Wilde meets …, a …. from …, who is Wilde’s first … experience —> … experience
Robbie Ross; literary executive; London; homosexual; eye-opening
1886- WIlde meets … (Bosie): have … in London
wilde decides to stop …, … as he wants, … w/ …, …, takes Bosie out to …. –> drew attention to himself
Lord Alfred Douglas; relationship; hiding; dresses; parties; young; gay men; dinners
homosexuality was … in London at the time
illegal
Victorian social etiquette extended to every aspect of life
before visiting someone, you’d first have to issue a … that were …
calling card; public
John Douglas, Bosie’s father, left a calling card for WIlde, referring to him as a “…”
Douglas was an …, invented modern rules of … — …
posing sodomite; atheist; boxing; The Marquess of Queensberry rules
Wilde has Queensberry jailed for …- but it was true and Queensberry hires … who rifle through Wilde’s …, finding letters with the phrase “….”
criminal libel; private detectives; mail; the love that dare not speak its name
Wilde put on trial and sentenced to a … - his punishment was to tear … daily
he was essentially … when he left, and he went to …, wrote about … and …, which shows how defeated he was
prison labor camp; navy ropes apart; exiled from England; Paris; sin; confronting it
Wilde died in Paris in … from …
custom: put … on and … tombstone–> Wilde’s so filled that they had to erect … around it
1990; meningitis; red lipstick; kiss; glass
class divide between … (…) v. … (…)
new money; lavish; old money; respected
connection between monetary wealth and … –> richer people are …. people
moral value; better
rich people established
social etiquette
small talk: “no topic of absorbing interest ha its place in …” —> no talk of …, …
polite conversation; religion; politics
