She is a child of nature, as ingenuous and unspoiled as a pink rose, to which Algernon compares her in Act II. By this, I do not mean, of course, that I wished to teach anything or to be didactic in any kind of way. That is not very pleasant. I put those words into the mouth of Jack, in The Importance of Being Earnest. Melanie Fuertes tells us of "The Gratitude List" by Gabriel Davis.
Indeed, it is not even decent... and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. Whether this attempt succeeded or failed is truly not for me to, although I certainly wouldn't trust of my critics either. Still, if I had to introduce the novel in order to reflect on it now I would describe it as something of a contradiction. Her charm lies in her idiosyncratic cast of mind and her imaginative capacity, qualities that derive from Wilde's notion of life as a work of art. Written by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. Hugo Halbrich in a sincere, heartfelt rendition of The Song of Wandering Aengus by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. Andrew Cobb tells us it's Your Move, Chief as Dr. Sean, Good Will Hunting, written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck. The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, I was knew of the danger of sensual indulgence, both for the soul and for the body, but I didn't think people would take prudishness seriously, especially not from me. Nonetheless, my satires were well known enough that I did not expect anyone to take my novel too seriously, or at least, not to feel as if they could entirely trust me. ALGERNON: I haven't the smallest intention of dining with Aunt Augusta. She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. To do so, I urge only that you use both your soul, and the body that encases it. Rather, so much of what I wrote revolved around a combined sense of freshness and tiredness that I would find the in the world.
I repeat them now because at times this was precisely the kind of boredom that I found myself confronting, both within myself and within those whom I knew in London and outside it. It was as much to demonstrate the paucity of the life led in the open, as much as it was to show genuine moral concern. If Gwendolen is a product of London high society, Cecily is its antithesis. I stand by this, but of course it should apply to my novel too. In the third place, I know perfectlywell whom she will place me next to, to-night. Nonetheless, there was something that I found truly disgusting about the way that our Victorian life insisted on living in this terrible bad faith. Rather, I wanted to seriously consider the soul in its forms as it was found in our contemporary age, and to do so by studying what could make it great and what could make it depraved. London: Penguin, 2012. In thesecond place, whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, and sent down with either no woman at all, or two. I remember saying once that 'most people simply exist' and that to live is truly an exceptional thing (1998, 1). Like Algernon and Jack, she is a fantasist. As my only novel, I suppose that some must consider it to be a life's work in some way, or at least to contain all that it was that I considered most important. Funny, serious, sad, classical, witty….
All social life, it seemed, was performance. Cecily is probably the most realistically drawn character in the play, and she is the only character who does not speak in epigrams. Collected Poetry of Oscar Wilde. Peter Macfarlane proves to us that a little lunacy never hurts, as Don Miguel de Cervantes in Man of La Mancha. By William Shakespeare. Alina Queirolo portrays "Good People" by David Lindsat-Abaire. Of course, as I had Henry say in it, 'Conscience and cowardice are really the same things' I meant it. Of course, some criticized my basic idea of the Faust motif, and of some of my sermonising, but I stand by it. Sofia Chater delivers a scathing monologue as Abigail Williams from The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. I speak, of course, of The Picture of Dorian Gray, that novel through which, as it was said at my trial, a line of immorality and depravity ran like a purple thread. As a piece of evidence it proved, many respects, to be my downfall; to make sure that it could no longer be denied that I was, according to the standards of the society in which I lived and whose morals I was so concerned with exposing. Simon Chater offers us Cyrano's "nose speech" from the TV adaptation (1985) of Cyano de Bergerac, a play by Edmond Rostand.
I wanted my art to be something more. Though she does not have an alter-ego as vivid or developed as Bunbury or Ernest, her claim that she and Algernon/Ernest are already engaged is rooted in the fantasy world she's created around Ernest. Here are the monologues! She is obsessed with the name Ernest just as Gwendolen is, but wickedness is primarily what leads her to fall in love with "Uncle Jack's brother, " whose reputation is wayward enough to intrigue her. It is necessary to understand something about my work before being able to explain this fully. She has invented her romance with Ernest and elaborated it with as much artistry and enthusiasm as the men have their spurious obligations and secret identities. The Picture of Dorian Gray, London: Penguin, 2003. It was an attempt to make art live in and for itself, not simply as it exists in and through things. Here I tried to describe the sense of excitement, and of course the sense of danger, that could come from attempting to give unbridled reign to one's aesthetic impulses.
However, her ingenuity is belied by her fascination with wickedness. Lucia Vallaro and her wonderful excuse to go to dinner. Jordan Saxby delivers a killing monologue straight out of Gotham City: The Killing Joke by Brian Azzarello, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore. For what is art without that little prick of fright?
Certainly, into the mouths of Henry, Basil and Dorian I found myself putting thoughts that had, at times occurred to me, but at the same time I cannot say that I saw this as simply the only point of my activity. I now look at my novel as the attempt to show that what it might mean for this to pursued in all of its possibility, and of course what that itself might need in order to even be a possibility at all. Needless to say, I also think on the novel as something as something of a superior ghost story. Fernanda Bigotti instructs us on the proper way to make a marriage proposal according to Mabel Chiltern, from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.
When I would have my hapless moral lovers state 'The dead are dancing with the dead' (ibid). When one is in the country one amuses other people' (2012, 5). To begin with, I dined thereon Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. Such a thing could not be worse; could not do more to sully the tenderness and care that is required if anything like beautiful art could be produced. Gabriel Romero Day thinking about what it is like to be dead in this monologue from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.
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