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5 Cards in this Set
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"You don't think there is a chance of Gwendolen becoming like her mother in about one hundred and fifty years, do you Algy?" |
Wilde is using Jack's character and situation to criticise the notion that women will end up like their mothers in the future. |
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"But my name is certainly John, it has been John for years." |
Even though Wilde has given Jack a double- identity, in this scene he seems like he is protecting hi |
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"What nonsense, I haven't got a brother." |
Act 2
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"Why should there be one law for men and another for women?" |
This seems to be showing Wilde's slight feminist side, as |
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"Miss Cardew does not come legally of age until she is thirty-five." |
Here, Wilde has exaggerated the age at which Cecily would be come legal and therefore marry Algy. For the audience, this would come as a shock as the average span for the gentry would have been about 45. |
