LWF Act 1 quotes Flashcards
(23 cards)
[Lady Windermere is at t____ R., a_______ roses in a b____ bowl.]
[Lady Windermere is at table R., arranging roses in a blue bowl.]
-Roses are a repeated symbol// extended metaphor throughout this act.
-> It also strikes up mindless
chatter between LD and Lady W
which could be Wilde insinuating
that high class society is all
mindless
Lady W: ‘[H________ for a moment.] S____ him up—and I’m at h_____ to any one who c_____.’
[Hesitates for a moment.] Show him up—and I’m at home to any one who calls.
- ‘hesitates’ - verb - Indicates to the audience that she does not want to really be left alone with LD
Lady W: ’Lord Darlington, you a_______ me last night at the F_____ Office. I am a_____ you are going to a______ me again.’
Lord Darlington, you annoyed me last night at the Foreign Office. I am afraid you are going to annoy me again.
-She does not reciprocate LD’s feelings and flirting
- Repetition of the verb ‘annoy’ -> emphasises he irritation of LD
Lady W: ‘ Yes, I’m of a___ today. Quite an i_________ day in my l____, isn’t it?’
Lady W: ‘ Yes, I’m of age today. Quite an important day in my life, isn’t it?’
- Question - emphasises the extent of LW’s youth
Lord D: ‘ I would have c_____ the whole s_____ in f_____ of your house with f_______ for you to w_____ on.’
Lord D: ‘ I would have covered the whole street in front of your house with flowers for you to walk on.’
- Adj- ‘whole’ - highlights the extent of LD’s ‘love’ or the extent of his fickleness
Lord D: ‘ the only p______ things to p___ are compliments’
Lord D: ‘ the only pleasant things to pay are compliments’
-‘only’ and ‘pleasant’ - adj- illuminates how modern society is not genuine and how Victorian Britain spend excessive amounts of money of things for show but not to bring others joy. ??
Lady W: ‘I don’t see w___ a man should think he is p_____ a woman e________ when he says to her a w____ heap of t_____ that he doesn’t m____.’
‘I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.’
-verb- ‘pleasing’ - suggesting hoe men think they are bringing women joy but instead hindering them
- adj -‘enormously’ -
- adj - ‘whole’- emphasises the amount of men who say things the don’t men and the extent of their lies
-noun - ‘heap - dismissive to the lies men say
Lady W: ‘But I s________ like you at a__ if I t________ you were w____ most o____ men are.’
Lady W: ‘But I shouldn’t like you at all if I thought you were what most other men are.’
- adjs - ‘most other’ - generalises what the other men of society are like. Emphasises the societal power imbalance between men and women and the stereotypes that fuel society.
Lady W: ‘I t____ we are very g___ friends a_____’
Lady W: ‘I think we are very good friends already’
-adj- ‘very good’
- dual meaning of the noun ‘friend’
- LW: actual friend vs LD:
sexual companion/ lover
Lady W: ‘ It is a s_______. Its i_____ is Love. Its p________ is sacrifice.’ [life]
Lady W: ‘ It is a sacrament. Its ideal is Love. Its purification is sacrifice.’
-by using the noun ‘sacrament’ to describe life, highlights to the reader how life is a godly source that must be protected [illuminates LW’s Puritan upbringing].
Lady W: ‘Because the h______ is v___- should the w___ be v___ a___?’
Lady W: ‘Because the husband is vile- should the wife be vile also?’
-The use of the adjective ‘vile’ highlights how she believes cheating is sinful// ironic foreshadowing
Lady W: (Standing at t___) ‘I think they sh_____ n_____ be f________.’
Lady W: (Standing at table) ‘I think they should never be forgiven.’
- adverb -‘never’ - alludes to the extent of LW’s distaste for cheating – once again ironic
Lady W: ‘ If we had ‘these h___ and f___ r___’, we should find l___ much more s____.’
Lady W: ‘ If we had ‘these hard and fast rules’, we should find life much more simple.’
- repeating adjs ‘hard and fast’ - how LW believes that society should be dictated by simple rules
- ## adjs- ‘much more simple’ - how she believes society can become easier if cheaters were prosecuted
Lady W: ‘I will have no one in my house a____ w____ there is any s______.’
Lady W: ‘I will have no one in my house about whom there is any scandal.’
- IRONIC // foreshadows
D o B: ‘B____ are so w_____. ‘
D o B: ‘Boys are so wicked ‘
-> adj - wicked
Lady W: ‘ Are a __ men b__ ?’
‘Are all men bad?’
- adj - all - alludes to victorian double standards allow men to continuously cheat and get away with it.
Lady W: ‘Windermere and I m_____ for l___’
‘Windermere and I married for love’
Lady W: ‘He l____ me! He l____ me!’
Lady W: ‘He loves me! He loves me!’
Lord W: I think it is w____ that a wife should s__ on her h_______.’
Lord W: I think it is wrong that a wife should spy on her husband.’
Lady W: ‘I feel s______ , utterly s______’
Lady W: ‘I feel stained, utterly stained’
- adj - ‘stained’ - how Lord’s actions will scorn her reputation, despite it not being her fault
Lord W: (C______ to her): ‘I never l____ anyone in the w____ w____ but you.’
Lord W: (Crossing to her): ‘I never loved anyone in the whole world but you.’
- verb - crossing - shows how he is trying to console her
Lord W: ‘none of us m__ may be g___ e_______ for the women we m____- this is q___ true - but you don’t i_______ I would ever- oh, the s________ is m__________!’
Lord W: ‘none of us men may be good enough for the women we marry- this is quite true - but you don’t imagine I would ever- oh, the suggestion is monstrous!’
- adj - ‘good enough’
- adj - ‘monstrous’ - cheating is further seen as something criminal and sinful. Lord W’s opinion on cheating differs from other men in the play
Lady W: ‘ I am t___ that there is h____ a husband in L_____ who does not w___ his life over some s_____ p______.’
Lady W: ‘ I am told that there is hardly a husband in London who does not waste his life over some shameful passion.’
- adj -‘ hardly’ - the large quantity of men that do this
-verb - ‘waste’ - how its viewed as useless and un-beneficial - adj - ‘shameful’ - how society will view their household after scandals
- abstract noun -‘passion’ - passion insinuates how it is only a fling and a whim // not something that is permanent like marriage
