TIOBE : Cecily

Question 1

Fantasist

“I keep a diary…”

Answer 1

“in order to enter all the wonderful secrets of my life.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 2

Fantasist

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened…”

Answer 2

“I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 3

Fantasist

“If you are not, then you have certainly been decieving us all in a very inexcusable manner…”

Answer 3

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 4

Fantasist

“You silly boy! Of course…”

Answer 4

“why we have been engaged for the last three months.”
- Cecily Act 2

Interaction between Cecily and Algernon shows the superficiality of Victorian marriages, their concerns are trivial and clearly don’t have a true love for one another

Question 5

Fantasist - superficiality of Victorian relationships

“It would have hardly been a really serious engagement if…”

Answer 5

“it hadn’t been brolen off at least once.”
- Cecily Act 2

Parody of romance and relationships in fiction

Question 6

Superficiality of society and maner

“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manner…”

Answer 6

“when I see a spade I call it a spade.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 7

Mocking of societal traditions

Gwendolen : […] Sugar is not fashionable anymore.

Answer 7

(Cecily looks angrily at her, takes up the tongs and puts 4 lumps of sugar into the cup)