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I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all.
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act 2
I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all.
Sir Robert Chilt...
Sir Robert says this to Lord Goring when he's consulting his friend about what to do about Mrs. Cheveley's blackmail attempt. Lord Goring has just asked how Sir Robert could have sold himself for money. Sir Robert responds by directly challenging traditional morality, and audiences must decide if he's just justifying his actions or if he truly thinks as independently as it appears. He argues that he was buying success, not selling himself, as if these are two opposing ideas, with the implication that buying success is somehow less morally objectionable than selling oneself for money. In this way he unintentionally echoes Mrs. Cheveley's later insistence that she is simply trying to do business and watch out for her own interests when she steals and blackmails. On the other hand Sir Robert may be telling the truth: in a society in which wealth is power, he did what he needed to do in order to thrive.
It is a commercial transaction. That is all. There is no good mixing sentimentality in it.
Mrs. Cheveley, Act 3
It is a commercial transaction. That is all. There is no good mixing sentimentality in it.
Mrs. Ch...
There is such an abundance of epigrams in An Ideal Husband it is easy to forget that sometimes characters can still speak directly, as Mrs. Cheveley does in this quotation. It follows her fiendish offer to Lord Goring: if he marries her she will destroy the letter incriminating his friend, Sir Robert. He refuses, and she says she will ruin Sir Robert. When he objects in horror, she argues that it's just business.
In this instance Mrs. Cheveley says what she means and means what she says. Earlier in the scene she claimed that she loved Lord Goring years ago but qualifies it, saying that he was "the only person I had ever cared for, if I ever have cared for anybody." She clearly wants to marry him as much for wealth and social status as anything else. Many of the characters in the play base their actions on their own self-interest, often hypocritically. Mrs. Cheveley is in a league of her own—the most extreme example in the play of selfishness as a poisonous absolute.
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions.
Lady Chiltern, Act 4
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions...
Lady Chiltern says this to Sir Robert when she rejects his decision to retire from public life, which she had previously supported. She is also repeating words Lord Goring has just said to her. This is a speech by a woman to a man explaining the difference between men and women ... and quoting a man to do so. Lady Chiltern will bend her rigid moral standards and forgive her husband's past criminal acts, having decided that a woman's role is to forgive so men can get on with their "greater ambitions." In this way, while her marriage is preserved her own power within it is diminished.
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