Quotes Flashcards
Lady Bracknell: ‘To lose one parent,…
Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness’
Lady Bracknell ‘I am not in favour of long…
engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable’.
Jack ‘Cannot repentance…
‘Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Mother I forgive
you!’
-parodies melodrama.
Algy ‘where more than half of…
modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read’
and attacks literary critics who ‘haven’t been to university’
Lane: Misunderstanding…
Between myself and a young person’
-For shadows major concept of the play that marriage is more about misunderstandings than love.
Jack: Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing…
for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
Miss Prism: The good end…
happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
-Miss Prism.
-If its a rule of fiction - suggests it does not happen in real life where ones fate unrelated to one morality.
-Deeply Religious values of Miss prism - sins are punished - strict victorian rules of morality promoted by the church.
