ENGL 1410 Lecture Notes - Sexual Repression, Aestheticism
11 Apr 2013
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One lives because of beauty aestheticism was a cult. Movement believed that art shouldn"t just seek to have an education message, it was to give sensual pleasure. Had the facade as a father and husband, and a private life (put on trial for homosexuality) Died of poverty, trial ruined the rest of his life. Aiming critique at the upper classes and the victorian social ideology. E. g. a woman is only worth something if she"s married. Title conveys that its important to be truthful and upfront. Culturally in this time period things were taking place. Women are now going out to work. End of the 1800s because of the war, women outnumbered men in england. Trying to break down our understanding of how things are categorized in boxes. Irony, nothing earnest about the characters or the play. Whole understanding of earnest, nothing earnest in the play. Making a vast social commentary on the hypocrisy of keeping up appearances.
