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A Woman of No Importance
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All thought is immoral. It's the very essence of destruction. If you think anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
This is my fourth Oscar Wilde and I have to say that somehow, it is a contender for my favorite. While The Picture of Dorian Gray, his masterpiece, is a slick esoteric trip with panache, A Woman of No Importance takes the wit and nonsensical 19th-century British society with flair to write a drama-filled comic masterpiece in 5 acts, filled with questions about womanhood in the 19th century.
Between discussions of religion, marriage, hopes, and dreams, the women in this story are trapped in a role of complacency, coming to life at the will of their idiotic husbands' calumnious self-importance.
The title itself, A Woman of No Importance is a choice referring to one of the characters, unwed, with a child, who has chosen a path of single motherhood instead of marrying a moronic lover who is, by the end, The Man of No Importance.
This book is easy to read, a true page-turner that won't fail to make you laugh. Highly recommend.
All thought is immoral. It's the very essence of destruction. If you think anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
This is my fourth Oscar Wilde and I have to say that somehow, it is a contender for my favorite. While The Picture of Dorian Gray, his masterpiece, is a slick esoteric trip with panache, A Woman of No Importance takes the wit and nonsensical 19th-century British society with flair to write a drama-filled comic masterpiece in 5 acts, filled with questions about womanhood in the 19th century.
Between discussions of religion, marriage, hopes, and dreams, the women in this story are trapped in a role of complacency, coming to life at the will of their idiotic husbands' calumnious self-importance.
The title itself, A Woman of No Importance is a choice referring to one of the characters, unwed, with a child, who has chosen a path of single motherhood instead of marrying a moronic lover who is, by the end, The Man of No Importance.
This book is easy to read, a true page-turner that won't fail to make you laugh. Highly recommend.
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August 29, 2024
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