English 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Making Money, The School For Scandal, Restoration Comedy
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It is important to note that this is a play that plays on sensibilities. There is two main targets of satire: sensibility and scandal. There is a response to beauty, to suffering, and they develop our ethical capacities. This was a text that wa sa part of backlash against sensibilities. It is a critique of it as an aesthetic and moral ideal. Sensibility can be mimicked, and turned completely insincere. It engages with the ideal that the sentimental hero can be learned and replicated. Therefore, it can be used as a tool for vice. In the wrong hands, the sentimental script can result in facilitation of vice, hyprocity, et. Our moralist, who pretends to be, says the right things; however he is more flawed than his obviously flawed brother. The brother who is actually benevolent is actually feckless. There is an engagement with the ideals of the sentimental. He was an important figure in theatre, and in the dramatic world.
