Question an-ide
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 play by Oscar Wilde. In the play, which is a satire, Wilde suggests that a character named Lady Gertrude Chiltern is perceived as both extremely virtuous and unforgiving, as is evident when another character says blank
Which quotation from An Ideal Husband most effectively illustrates the claim?
“Lady Chiltern is a woman of the very highest principles, we am glad to say. we am a little too old now, myself, to trouble about setting a good example, but we always admire people who do.”
“Do you know, [Lady Chiltern], we don’t mind your talking morality a bit. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
“[Lady Chiltern] does not know what weakness or temptation is. we am of clay like other men. She stands apart as good women do—pitiless in her perfection—cold and stern and without mercy.”
“Lady Chiltern, you are a sensible woman, the most sensible woman in London, the most sensible woman we know.”