An Ideal Husband

Aside from being a dandy, complete with his trendsetting wardrobe, clueless life, and irresponsible nature Lord Arthur, Viscount Goring, has a redeeming quality that makes his defects pale in...

If we go by the writing style of the author, Oscar Wilde, the first point to consider is the irony of the title. Wilde used satire as his preferred medium for comedy. These comedies, which mock the...

Oscar Wilde wrote An Ideal Husband during the decade known as the "Naughty Nineties," the twilight years of England's Victorian era. This period was distinguished by England's growth as...

In the play An Ideal Husband, truth is averted at every turn in favor of appearances and ensuring one's status in society. Robert Chiltern hides a secret from his youth uncovered by Mrs. Cheveley....

Marxism is a super wide and broad concept to reduce to one aspects of this particular play. However, if we go with Lenin's tripartite version of Marxism, we see that they are a) critique of...

Two principle expressions of capitalism in An Ideal Husband involve Lord Chiltern and Lady Cheveley. In the first instance, Lord Chiltern confesses to Lord Goring that in his youth he followed the...

There are a number of arguments in both works by Wilde that have been socialized into public consciousness today. In An Ideal Husband, Wilde bravely makes the inequality between men and women in...

The interesting irony of the plays An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde, and Love for Love, by William Congreve is that they both do not necessarily criticize the values, but actually mock them as...

It is not easy to dig into a unified whole and find the parts that comprise it, especially to compare that to another whole and especially when both are created by a master. But this type of...

The two characters to be compared are Viscount Alfred, Lord Goring from An Ideal Husband and Valentine Legend from Love for Love. Although Love for Love is an example of Restoration comedy, An...

To determine character motivation, analyze each character's goals and conflicts. Ask: What is it that each character wants? The ask: What is it that prevents each character from attaining that...

In An Ideal Husband, Wilde describes his characters, Lady Basildon and her best friend, Mrs. Marchmont, as ladies "of exquisite fragility." They are the female version of the nineteenth century...

Education and class come hand in hand in both plays, Love for Love and in An Ideal Husband. InLove for Love,Marlow is described as "bred educated", intelligent, and well-schooled man who, although...

An Ideal Husband is full of examples of the clash between traditional moral ideas of purity and integrity on one hand and shrewd deception and politicking on the other. Sir Robert is built up as a...

Wilde used his play "An Ideal Husband" to reiterate his belief that no matter who the individual is, all men and women have secrets to hide. Through the action of the play, Wilde infers...

At first glance, Lady Windermere’s Fan and An Ideal Husband appear rather similar. They are both set in a familiar Wildean milieu, in the Mayfair mansions of brilliant aristocrats who make sparking...

In Wilde's An Ideal Husband, love is defined by Victorian ideals. A man should be intelligent, moral, loyal, honest, and a good provider. The ideal woman, however, was one who finds a man to marry...