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Act II TIOBE (cover up due to repressed identities & repressed desires…
Act II TIOBE
cover up due to repressed identities & repressed desires, need of social shell
Soc tension
"Do look happy" - order, need to keep social mask and not fall in reality
During the whole time they talk : keep on appearances, calm tone, control
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Double pb that Earnest 'quite dead" vs earnest alive "your brother is in the dining-room" - comic // Algy doesn't know emigrating
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Lies to ourselves
"we have been engaged for the last three month (...) I fell in love with you Earnest" // Gwendolyn, + lies & make up bc futile and useless
Fake ring, fake letters she wrote to herself : fool or preparation bc importance of marriage?
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Hypocrisy
due to
secret
Jack "slowly and hesitantly" , says "never had brother in my life", - sympathy, complains, poor
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Ridiculous, useless "grotesque "childish" "absurd"
Truth & deception G "He is the very soul of truth and honour. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception." vs lied. All marriage trivial has become an engagement. Both men accuse each other of deceiving the women. hypocrisy of Victorian virtues, paid lip service in public but invariably denied in private lives
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hidden+ repressed sex nature : must have a double identity,
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Interest in
the forbidden
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C hopes Ernest looks like a "wicked person," not sure what one looks like.
C interested in prim & proper Miss Pri written 3-volume novel. =/deemed proper literature, read in secret.
Strong allurement for him, wickedness fascinates C, open interest in immorality= charm ,suitable love interest for Algy.
Vict aud, maturity, ripeness, and green=coded words experience and naiveté. dr C "I spoke horticulturally. My metaphor was drawn from fruits." = cryptic nature of sex experiences in 1890s. Adults not discuss sex w/ child or polite soc = C fascinated by wickedness., young girls protected from any knowledge of sex, and adults speak of it in obscure terms so as not to let out the "big secret."
(for all) Functions & effect in relation to the theme & impact on the play, specific references, how important in the play, how & why play revolves around these aspects, around dramatic spectacles & wilde themes and concern