aih rest

Question 1

Cheveley goes from

Answer 1

“an agony of physical terror” to “illumined with evil triumph”

Question 2

Phipps in stage descriptions

Answer 2

“Of his intellectual or emotional life history knows nothing. He represents the dominance of thought. =“ an empty shell with an immaculate interior”

Question 3

Private information

Answer 3

is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Question 4

Every man of ambition

Answer 4

has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. … my passion for power… I did not sell myself for money. I boght success at a great price.

Question 5

he expounded to us the most terrible of all philosophies

Answer 5

the philosophy of power preached to us the most marvellous of all gospels the gospel of gold…showed me his tapestries his enamels his jewels his carved ivories made me wonder at the strange loveliness of the luxury in which he lived…power over the world was the one thing worth having

Question 6

End

Answer 6

“For both of us a new life is beginning”

Question 7

it would kill her love for me” - “i feel like a man on a ship that is sinking

Question 8

Act II:SRC’s rant about idealism

Answer 8

There was your mistake. There was your error. The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of clay women as well as men…You made your false idol of me and I had not the courage to come down show you my wounds tell you my weaknesses. I was afraid that I might lose your love as I have lost it now. And so last night you ruined my life for me

Question 9

Female power

Answer 9

Cheveley “men always look so silly when they are caught”

Question 10

Pearls

Answer 10

“I’m sick and tired of pearls. They make one looks so plain so good and so intellectual - Mabel “

Question 11

Mabel as a New Woman: “my duty is a thing i never do on principle”

Question 12

Goring at end

Answer 12

“Why should you scourge him with rods for a sin done in his youth… It has larger issues wider scope greater ambitions…a mans life is of more value than a womans”

Question 13

Lady Markby: “that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women”

Question 14

GORING

Answer 14

Then the marvellous gospel of gold breaks down sometimes. The rich can’t do everything

Question 15

she looks like a woman with a past

Question 16

Reforms

Answer 16

the Woman’s Liberal Association… Factory Acts Female Inspectors the Eight Hours’ Bill the Parliamentary Franchise. . . . Everything

Question 17

GORING as a microcosm of whole play: aesthetic outward appearance with hidden depth

Question 18

FARCICAL SEQUENCE WITH CAVERSHAM

Answer 18

draughts and marriage

Question 19

cheveley’s arrogance

Answer 19

‘I shall have to alter all this’

Question 20

Sterility of lc’s moral compass - marriage based on false substance = no children

Question 21

‘The climax of my diplomatic career’

Question 22

Src ‘denounced it roundly’ = some moral redemption

Question 23

it is your duty to get married. You can’t be always living for pleasure. Every man of position is married nowadays.

Question 24

[A look of triumph comes over her face. WHEN SHE FINDS LETTER

Question 25

SRC idealised description of LC

Answer 25

She stands apart as good women do pitiless in her perfection cold and stern and without mercy.

Question 26

MRS. CHEVELEY. How you men

Answer 26

stand up for each other! LORD GORING. How you women war against each other!

Question 27

break her idol

Question 28

stole that ornament from my cousin

Answer 28

Mary Berkshire to whom I gave it when she was married.

Question 29

Stage directions with chev at end

Answer 29

[ in a paroxysm of rage with inarticulate sounds… in an agony of physical terror. Her face is distorted. Her mouth awry. A mask has fallen from her. She it, for the moment, dreadful to look at...With a bitter note of triumph in her voice…. Her face it illumined with evil triumph. There is joy in her eyes. Youth seems to have come back to her. Her last glance is like a swift arrow. ]]

Question 30

winning

Answer 30

Chiltern's speech last night on this Argentine Canal scheme was one of the finest pieces of oratory ever delivered in the House since Canning.

Question 31

MABEL CHILTERN. [Rapturously.]

Answer 31

Oh! is it a proposal? LORD GORING. [Somewhat taken aback.] Well yes it is I am bound to say it is. MABEL CHILTERN. [With a sigh of pleasure.] I am so glad. That makes the second today = Undermine significance of proposal and mocks institute of marriage

Question 32

Pasts

Answer 32

How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them

Question 33

Power female

Answer 33

I suppose I should retire from public life?...Your husband's life is at this moment in your hands your husband's love is in your hands.

Question 34

Praise

Answer 34

You have got what we want so much in political life nowadays high character high moral tone high principles. [To LORD GORING.] Everything that you have not got and never will have.

Question 35

Initial declaration

Answer 35

My intention is to retire at once from public life. / Decline a seat in the Cabinet and retire from public life