This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. It provides a thorough exploration of the play’s plot, characters and main themes, including the play’s use of melodrama and the double standards of Victorian society. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This...
Read more
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde (Book Analysis)
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280801754166EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. It provides a thorough exploration of the play’s plot, characters and main themes, including the play’s use of melodrama and the double standards of Victorian society. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 66-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Oscar Wilde
Presentation of A Woman of No Importance
Summary of A Woman of No Importance
Character study
Mrs Rachel Arbuthnot
Lord Illingworth
Gerald Arbuthnot
Hester Worsley
Mrs Allonby
Lady Hunstanton
Lady Caroline Pontefract
Lady Stutfield
Analysis of A Woman of No Importance
Sexual politics and power in A Woman of No Importance
The outcast and the other
Melodrama vs society comedy
About A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance was one of Oscar Wilde’s earliest theatrical successes. The play centers on the character of Mrs Arbuthnot, the titular ‘woman of no importance’, who is secretly a ‘fallen woman’ whose son Gerald was born out of wedlock, although she is very devout and maintains the pretense of being a respectable widow. However, her life is turned upside-down when her son announces his intention to take a job as the personal secretary to the notorious rake Lord Illingworth – the very same man who seduced and abandoned her all those years ago.
About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was one of the best-known writers of the 19th century, with works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray widely recognized as classics. He was a central figure of fashionable London society, known as much for his witticisms as for his writing. In spite of his apparent superficiality, he was an insightful critic and perceptive observer of human nature, as can be seen in his many works across a wide range of genres. However, his relationships with men scandalized his narrow-minded contemporaries, and after serving a two-year prison sentence, he died in poverty and obscurity in Paris in 1900.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. It provides a thorough exploration of the play’s plot, characters and main themes, including the play’s use of melodrama and the double standards of Victorian society. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 66-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Oscar Wilde
Presentation of A Woman of No Importance
Summary of A Woman of No Importance
Character study
Mrs Rachel Arbuthnot
Lord Illingworth
Gerald Arbuthnot
Hester Worsley
Mrs Allonby
Lady Hunstanton
Lady Caroline Pontefract
Lady Stutfield
Analysis of A Woman of No Importance
Sexual politics and power in A Woman of No Importance
The outcast and the other
Melodrama vs society comedy
About A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance was one of Oscar Wilde’s earliest theatrical successes. The play centers on the character of Mrs Arbuthnot, the titular ‘woman of no importance’, who is secretly a ‘fallen woman’ whose son Gerald was born out of wedlock, although she is very devout and maintains the pretense of being a respectable widow. However, her life is turned upside-down when her son announces his intention to take a job as the personal secretary to the notorious rake Lord Illingworth – the very same man who seduced and abandoned her all those years ago.
About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was one of the best-known writers of the 19th century, with works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray widely recognized as classics. He was a central figure of fashionable London society, known as much for his witticisms as for his writing. In spite of his apparent superficiality, he was an insightful critic and perceptive observer of human nature, as can be seen in his many works across a wide range of genres. However, his relationships with men scandalized his narrow-minded contemporaries, and after serving a two-year prison sentence, he died in poverty and obscurity in Paris in 1900.application/pdf1
DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDEThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. It provides a thorough exploration of the play’s plot, characters and main themes, including the play’s use of melodrama and the double standards of Victorian society. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 66-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Oscar Wilde
- Presentation of A Woman of No Importance
- Summary of A Woman of No Importance
- Character study
- Mrs Rachel Arbuthnot
- Lord Illingworth
- Gerald Arbuthnot
- Hester Worsley
- Mrs Allonby
- Lady Hunstanton
- Lady Caroline Pontefract
- Lady Stutfield
- Analysis of A Woman of No Importance
- Sexual politics and power in A Woman of No Importance
- The outcast and the other
- Melodrama vs society comedy
About A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance was one of Oscar Wilde’s earliest theatrical successes. The play centers on the character of Mrs Arbuthnot, the titular ‘woman of no importance’, who is secretly a ‘fallen woman’ whose son Gerald was born out of wedlock, although she is very devout and maintains the pretense of being a respectable widow. However, her life is turned upside-down when her son announces his intention to take a job as the personal secretary to the notorious rake Lord Illingworth – the very same man who seduced and abandoned her all those years ago.
About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was one of the best-known writers of the 19th century, with works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray widely recognized as classics. He was a central figure of fashionable London society, known as much for his witticisms as for his writing. In spite of his apparent superficiality, he was an insightful critic and perceptive observer of human nature, as can be seen in his many works across a wide range of genres. However, his relationships with men scandalized his narrow-minded contemporaries, and after serving a two-year prison sentence, he died in poverty and obscurity in Paris in 1900.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782808017541 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
| Format | |
| Pages | 66 |
| File size | 2.2 MB |
