An ideal husband

an ideal husband ( Ideal Year Husband ) is a Play of Oscar Wilde of 1895.

Synopsis

Sir Robert Chiltern is Secretary of State, he made his fortune on only one operation dishonest person. In this end of era victorienne, all the English good company and its pars of the House of Commons hold it for an eminently sizeable and just man. Symbol of probity and competences it is promised with a brilliance political future, supported by his wife Lady Chiltern who sees in him the ideal husband. But Oscar Wilde likes to show us that appearances are misleading and that the social order rests only on individual and collective lies. It thus utilizes Mrs Cheveley, " a woman who has a passé" - stereotype in the middle-class theater of a woman whose reputation is not without spots because it made in her past of the acts which the morals of the time rejects. Mrs Cheveley makes sing Sir Robert Chiltern: either it helps it in another operation dishonest person, or it will reveal his secrecy at the great day thus starting a scandal which would cover it infamy.

Once again Wilde plays with conventions and the institutions, which they are political or matrimonial, of the English aristocratic company. In a maintenance granted to the Sketch, to London, in January 1895, Oscar Wilde said its part which it treated of " the difference that there is between the way in which a man loves a woman, and that whose woman loves a man; the passion which test the women to manufacture of the ideals (what is their weakness) and the weakness of a man who does not dare to show his imperfections with the being only it aime". From this difference is born the intrigue from an ideal husband.

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