Author : Oscar Wilde
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (555 download)
Book Synopsis An IDEAL HUSBAND Complete Annotated Version by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book An IDEAL HUSBAND Complete Annotated Version written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play opens with a party at the Chiltern house, in which all the principal characters are introduced. At this party, Mrs. Cheveley blackmails Sir Robert and forces him to support her Argentine Canal scheme, wherein she has invested heavily. She has in her possession a letter he wrote early in his public career wherein he bought state secrets and techniques for an excellent fortune that has supported him to at the present time. Faced with positive destroy, Sir Robert has no choice but to accept Mrs. Cheverly's terms, and agrees to head earlier than the House of Commons and publicly aid the canal. Later inside the night time, Lady Chiltern, who prides herself on having a "perfect husband" and is unaware of Sir Robert's previous corruption, appeals to his morality and forces him to jot down a letter retracting his promise to Mrs. Cheveley. Toward the cease of the act, Lord Goring and Mabel Chiltern find out a reputedly misplaced diamond brooch that Goring acknowledges as something he gave to someone lengthy ago. Lord Goring keeps the brooch and tells Mabel to tell him if each person asks for it.In Act II Lord Goring and Sir Robert discuss his plight, and Sir Robert relates why he dispatched the letter to Baron Arnheim, selling the state secret, such a lot of years ago. Lord Goring indicates Sir Robert must screen his immoral deed to Lady Chiltern, but he cannot fathom disappointing her and shattering her best image of him. Instead, Sir Robert wires to Vienna looking for information on Mrs. Cheveley, hoping to uncover something he can use to combat in opposition to her blackmail. Lady Chiltern enters and Sir Robert escapes alternatively fast. Lord Goring talks with Lady Chiltern, trying to see how she may react upon getting to know of Sir Robert's indiscretion. Lady Chiltern holds her husband in the highest regard and does no longer trust him able to corruption. Lord Goring warns Lady Chiltern that she has alternatively harsh views, and that life need to be lead with love in preference to judgment.After Lord Goring departs, Lady Markby and Mrs. Cheveley visit. Mrs. Cheveley lost a diamond brooch at the Chiltern's celebration and asks if it has been found. The ladies chat for a short while, and then Lady Markby departs to make a brief go to a nearby buddy. Left alone, Lady Chiltern and Mrs. Cheveley trade heated phrases. Mrs. Cheveley exhibits Sir Robert's past simply as he enters the room to discover his wife and his blackmailer collectively. He orders Mrs. Cheveley to go away, and she complies best after threatening him again. Lady Chiltern begs Sir Robert to disclaim Mrs. Cheverly's accusations, but he does now not, and ultimately tells her the fact approximately his past. She recoils from him in melancholy, her ideal photo of him shattered. The act closes with a tirade wherein Sir Robert curses how women placed guys upon not possible pedestals. He tells his wife she has ruined him, and storms out. Lady Chiltern, in extremely good ache, tries to comply with, but unearths her husband long gone.