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| lady Bracknell comments on society, expected time for mourning - reversal |
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| 'she looks quite twenty years younger' |
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| Lady Brackenll - on who her daughter will/will not marry |
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| '...would dream of allowing our only daughter... to marry into a clockroom and form an allience with a parcel.' |
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| lady Brackenll how people spend their time |
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| 'a man should always have an occupation of some kind' |
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| Lady Bracknell on parents |
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| 'to lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness' |
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| Lane - relfects lifestyle of algy - equals? conspiring together |
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| 'not even for ready money' |
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| Gwendoline dramatic irony about names |
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| 'i pity any woman who is married to a man called John' |
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| Algy - marriage and how it alsways needs some kind of deceit |
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| 'and that the happy English home has proved in half the time' |
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| Lady bracknell women dictating relationships and household - reversal of roles men should be the head of the household |
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| 'fortunatly he is accustomed to that' |
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| Lady brackenll - timing of entrance to prevent a resolution |
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| 'rise, sir, from theis semi-recumbant posture. it is most indecorous.' |
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| Algy - major reversal of excepted morals in society - marriage |
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| 'the amount of women who flirt with their husbands is perfectly scandalous. it looks so bad.' |
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| Algy on divorces, seroius subject being made trivial. link to heaven could be blasphemy - reversal in values, followed by flippancy of sandwiches |
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| 'divorces are made in heaven.' |
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| Lady brackenll - lack of compassion |
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| 'health is the primary duty of life' |
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| Lady bracknell - behaviours and feelings - experessing an opinion, appearance/reality |
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| 'in fact the two things rarely go together.' |
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| 'I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.' |
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| Lane - interchange with Algy at the end of the act |
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| 'if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?' |
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| Algy - women becoming like their mothers |
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| 'all women become like their mothers. that is their tragedy. no man does. that is his.' |
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| 'there is something about that name which inspires absolute confidence |
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| Lady Bracknell - education |
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| 'fortunatly in england at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.' |
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| gwendoline - reaction to Jack's proposal |
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| 'what wonderfully blue eyes you have Ernest!... look at me like that, especially when other people are present.' |
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| Algy - sums up his views on marriage - reversal of victorian values |
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| 'if i ever get married, i'll certainly try to forget the fact.' |
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| Gwendoline - reversal of generations |
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| 'the old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.' |
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| 'the truth is rarely pure adn never simple' |
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