Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. An ideal husband (An Ideal Husband in its original version) is a play in four acts by author Oscar Wilde released on January 3, 1895. Sir Robert Chiltern is now Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, it is because he has kept secret the origin of his fortune: a fraudulent transaction for which he sold state secrets to Baron Arnehim. All English high society and their peers in the House of Commons have him as a respectable and complete man. Symbol of honesty and future political competition seems bright, always with the support of his wife, Lady Chiltern, who considers him the ideal husband. However, appearances are misleading and the social order is based solely on individual and collective lies. that bright future is complicated by the appearance of Mrs. Cheveley, "a woman with a past", a woman whose reputation is not faultless, who blackmails Sir Robert Chiltern: either he helps her in another dishonest operation or she will reveal her secret, causing a scandal that will cover him with infamy.