TIOBE : Gwendolen Flashcards
Gwendolen’s fantasist life
“And my ideal has always been…”
“to love someone of the name Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.”
- Gwendolen Act 1
Gwendolen’s fantisist life
“Jack?…No there is…”
Social commentary of ideals and superficiality
“very little music in the name Jack, if any at all. It does not thrill. It produces no vibrations.”
- Gwendolen Act 1
Social commentary - superficiality and obsession with deception
“The story of your romantic origin […]…”
“has naturally stirred the deeper fibres of my nature.”
- Gwendolen Act 1
Superficiality
“Something tells me that we are going to be great friends…”
“I like you more already than I can say. My first impressions of people are never wrong.”
- Gwendolen Act 2
Superficiality - obsession with deception
“Oh! It is strange he never mentioned to me that he had a ward…”
“how secretive of him! He grows more interesting hourly.”
- Gwendolen Act 2
Shallow mask of manners
“On an occassion of this kind it becomes…”
“more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
- Gwendolen Act 2
Superficiality
“True. In matters of great importance…”
“style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”
- Gwendolen Act 3
Obsession with deception and impropriety
“This suspense is terrible…”
“I hope it will last.”
- Gwendolen Act 3
“From the moment I saw you I distrusted you…”
“I felt that you were false and decietful. I am never decieved in such matters.”
- Gwendolen Act 2
