Wilde critics

Question 1

let women

Answer 1

remain what nature made her … mistress of the home
–> Wilde was clearly opposing this through Mrs C
Victor Jose

Question 2

Mabel is a new

Answer 2

woman posing as an ingenue
Danson

Question 3

Wilde states to a friend ‘I became engrossed

Answer 3

in writing it and it contains a great deal of the real Oscar

Question 4

AIH reveals the gap between

Answer 4

moral posturing and the reality of public power
Raby

Question 5

Wilde uses superficial conservativism

Answer 5

concealing its more subsersive implications from the common playgoer
Eltis

Question 6

Wilde mocks society’s

Answer 6

confinement of women, fallen or not, into prescribed roles
S. Bose

Question 7

Emphasises the

Answer 7

aesthetic quality of the dandy’s persona
S. Bose

Question 8

Both Lady Chiltern and

Answer 8

Mrs Chevely pose threats to the world of the play by intruding onto the traditional male, public, non-domestic sphere and trying to impose their will on it
S. Bose

Question 9

Mrs Cheveley’s wrongdoing

Answer 9

is that she invades the male world
S. Bose
–> it is not her wrongdoing but society’s for enforcing gender stereotypes

Question 10

In Goring

Answer 10

Wilde uses his own voice
Gregor

Question 11

She [Mrs C.] acts as

Answer 11

a foil to the virtuous Gertrude
Varty
= Mrs C as a fallen woman?

Question 12

Politics dominated Wilde’s San Francisco

Answer 12

tour … He delivered four lectures in San Francisco—more than in any other American city.
Wilde wrapped himself in a fur cloak and set off for his tour
= He delivered 141 lectures over 11 months in 1882