Cecily Act 2 Flashcards
(12 cards)
1
Q
What is she afraid Algernon will look like?
A
- “I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else”… “He does!”
2
Q
What does Cecily ironically say about a double life?
A
- “I hope you have not been leading a double life”
3
Q
What does she say about Algernon and Bunbury?
A
- “kind to an invalid”
4
Q
What does she say about coughing?
A
- “I don’t know how to spell a cough”
5
Q
What does Cecily say about the letters?
A
- “I was forced to write your letters for you”
6
Q
What does she say about her and Algernon’s engagement?
A
- “It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn’t been broken off at least once”
7
Q
What does she say about the name Ernest?
A
- “a girlish dream of mine to love some one whose name was Ernest”
8
Q
How does she describe “Ernests” relationship with Gwendolen?
A
- “unfortunate entanglement”
9
Q
What does she say to insult Gwendolen?
A
- “aristocracy are suffering very much from it just as present” (agricultural depression)
10
Q
What does she do to Gwendolen?
A
- “[four lumps of sugar into the cup]”
11
Q
What does she say to Gwendolen after finding out they were lied to?
A
- “My sweet wronged Gwedolen!”
12
Q
What feminist comment does she make?
A
- “Men are so cowardly”
