The scene is set in an English country house â" Hunstanton (Lady Hunstanton's property). The curtains open to the terrace where we are introduced to Lady Caroline who is engaging in conversation with Lady Huntstanton's American Puritan guest Hester Worsley. Other characters are introduced, including the flirtatious Mrs Allonby, the meek Lady Stutfield and Lady Carolin...
The scene is set in an English country house â" Hunstanton (Lady Hunstanton's property). The curtains open to the terrace where we are introduced to Lady Caroline who is engaging in conversation with Lady Huntstanton's American Puritan guest Hester Worsley. Other characters are introduced, including the flirtatious Mrs Allonby, the meek Lady Stutfield and Lady Caroline's submissive husband Sir John. They discuss frivolous matters and are later joined by the powerful, charming and charismatic gentleman, Lord Illingworth who has offered the post of secretary to the fortunate Gerald Arbuthnot. Gerald's mother is invited to join the party, and when she arrives she realises that Lord Illingworth is Gerald's father. She had an affair with him twenty years ago, became pregnant and he refused to marry her, making her a "fallen woman." She is reluctant to let Gerald become Illingworth's secretary, but doesn't tell Gerald her reasons behind her reluctance...
ACT THREE
LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things.
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If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!)
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
ACT TWO
HESTER: ...You rich people in England, you don't know how you are living. You shut out from you society the gentle and the good...Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season...You have lost your secret of life. Oh, your ... (查看原文)
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second. (查看原文)
Lord Illingworth就是从Lord Henry抽离出来的人物吧。The Portrait of Dorian Gray写在这本之前，两个主人公的很多语录都一样。前一本里Lord Henry作为Dorian Gray的"bad influence"，后半本就鲜少提到，甚至没有交代“下场”。这本里面Lord Illingworth落个“众叛亲离老流氓”也算是圆满了。A Woman of N...Lord Illingworth就是从Lord Henry抽离出来的人物吧。The Portrait of Dorian Gray写在这本之前，两个主人公的很多语录都一样。前一本里Lord Henry作为Dorian Gray的"bad influence"，后半本就鲜少提到，甚至没有交代“下场”。这本里面Lord Illingworth落个“众叛亲离老流氓”也算是圆满了。A Woman of No Importance是目前看过的王尔德作品里最喜欢的，也许是因为有种生气勃勃的希望。离开腐朽的英国上流社会，去美国新大陆自力更生，大约在当时也是trending(展开)
Lord llingworth is humorous, attractive and full of creative ideas..although with those qualities, he is thoroughly a man who deserves no love. no one like him with the opinion that take marrige's ess...Lord llingworth is humorous, attractive and full of creative ideas..although with those qualities, he is thoroughly a man who deserves no love. no one like him with the opinion that take marrige's essence the destruction should be loved. nice for the ending of “a man of no impotrance”..(展开)
"Men always want to ve a woman's first love... What we like is to be a man's last romance."
王尔德对性别太有见解了，活在19世纪的人却比很多21世纪的男性有见解，果然只有浪漫的酷儿男性才会试图理解女人，这就是我为什么讨厌大部分男作家但却热爱他的原因。
Gerald asks specific questions that give Lord Illingworth room to preach his scoundrel like philosophy through his answers, much like the inquiring Dorian Gray in the Picture of Dorian Gray. The interesting part starts only when Mrs. Arbuthnot appears to Lo...
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是 Oscar Wilde 的作品，http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde（作者维基） 戏剧作品，以对话的形式进行。整部剧一共有四场，第一场是女士们关于婚姻、男性的谈话，说到的是the woman of no importance，其中也提到了一个他们说很charming的男人- 男主 Lord Illingworth ...
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When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. 一个人开始恋爱的时候，他以欺骗自己开始，而以欺骗别人结束。这就是世上所说的浪漫爱情。
2021-03-11 10:59:001人喜欢
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded. “你们英国对待妇女并不公平。除非你们认为对女人来说可耻的事，对男人来说一样可耻，否则，你们永远是不公平的。正确，是烈焰腾...
2021-03-03 11:33:481人喜欢
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.
The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up. the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. One should sympathise...
2012-11-21 17:28:581人喜欢
The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
One should sympathise with the joy, the beauty, the colour of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a
king, and most people die in exile, like most kings.
what you have to do at present is simply to fit yourself for the best society. A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.
the essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.
No man has any real success in this world unless he has got women to back him, and women rule society.
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
—there are many different kinds of women, aren't there?—Only two kinds in society: the plain and the coloured.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. But a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
the world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it!
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The world is simply divided into two classes - those who believe the incredible, like the public - and those who do the improbable
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
读到这段单亲妈妈独白还是很感动。 “The world draws them from our side, and they make friends with whom they are happier than they are with us, and have amusements from which we are barred, and interests that are not ours: and they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them . . . You made many f...
2022-03-09 14:39:16
读到这段单亲妈妈独白还是很感动。
“The world draws them from our side, and they make friends with whom they are happier than they are with us, and have amusements from which we are barred, and interests that are not ours: and they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them . . . You made many friends and went into their houses and were glad with them, and I, knowing my secret, did not dare to follow, but stayed at home and closed the door, shut out the sun and sat in darkness. What should I have done in honest households? My past was ever with me. . . . And you thought I didn’t care for the pleasant things of life.”
“ I have never repented of my sin. How could I repent of my sin when you, my love, were its fruit!”
It is my dishonour that has made you so dear to me. It is my disgrace that has bound you so closely to me. It is the price I paid for you—the price of soul and body—that makes me love you as I do.”
“Hearts live by being wounded. Pleasure may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrow—oh, sorrow cannot break it.”
“The world is simply divided into two classes—those who believe the incredible, like the public, and those who do the improbable” 王尔德几乎每部作品里都有一个玩世不恭，喜欢讽刺挖苦，每句话都要挑战一下常识认知，凸显自己智慧的男性。这些话虽有哲理，但听多了也真的好烦，男人真的不能话多，而且永远一副无所谓不在乎的样子谁会喜欢，不能太sentimental但也别过于cynical吧。 但我们喜欢王尔德的地方就在于，...
2022-03-09 00:01:30
“The world is simply divided into two classes—those who believe the incredible, like the public, and those who do the improbable”
读到这段单亲妈妈独白还是很感动。 “The world draws them from our side, and they make friends with whom they are happier than they are with us, and have amusements from which we are barred, and interests that are not ours: and they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them . . . You made many f...
2022-03-09 14:39:16
读到这段单亲妈妈独白还是很感动。
“The world draws them from our side, and they make friends with whom they are happier than they are with us, and have amusements from which we are barred, and interests that are not ours: and they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them . . . You made many friends and went into their houses and were glad with them, and I, knowing my secret, did not dare to follow, but stayed at home and closed the door, shut out the sun and sat in darkness. What should I have done in honest households? My past was ever with me. . . . And you thought I didn’t care for the pleasant things of life.”
“ I have never repented of my sin. How could I repent of my sin when you, my love, were its fruit!”
It is my dishonour that has made you so dear to me. It is my disgrace that has bound you so closely to me. It is the price I paid for you—the price of soul and body—that makes me love you as I do.”
“Hearts live by being wounded. Pleasure may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrow—oh, sorrow cannot break it.”
“The world is simply divided into two classes—those who believe the incredible, like the public, and those who do the improbable” 王尔德几乎每部作品里都有一个玩世不恭，喜欢讽刺挖苦，每句话都要挑战一下常识认知，凸显自己智慧的男性。这些话虽有哲理，但听多了也真的好烦，男人真的不能话多，而且永远一副无所谓不在乎的样子谁会喜欢，不能太sentimental但也别过于cynical吧。 但我们喜欢王尔德的地方就在于，...
2022-03-09 00:01:30
“The world is simply divided into two classes—those who believe the incredible, like the public, and those who do the improbable”
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man’s last romance” “Man, poor, awkward, reliable, necessary man belongs to a sex that has been rational for millions and millions of years. He can’t help himself. It is in his race. The History of Woman is very different. We have always been...
2022-03-08 23:45:11
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man’s last romance”
“Man, poor, awkward, reliable, necessary man belongs to a sex that has been rational for millions and millions of years. He can’t help himself. It is in his race. The History of Woman is very different. We have always been picturesque protests against the mere existence of common sense. We saw its dangers from the first.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.”
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also”
“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.” “One must have some occupation nowadays. If I hadn’t my debts I shouldn’t have anything to think about.” “The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy”
2022-03-08 22:14:19
“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.”
“One must have some occupation nowadays. If I hadn’t my debts I shouldn’t have anything to think about.”
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy”
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1 有用 ANOVA 2016-07-26 13:19:21
Lord Illingworth就是从Lord Henry抽离出来的人物吧。The Portrait of Dorian Gray写在这本之前，两个主人公的很多语录都一样。前一本里Lord Henry作为Dorian Gray的"bad influence"，后半本就鲜少提到，甚至没有交代“下场”。这本里面Lord Illingworth落个“众叛亲离老流氓”也算是圆满了。A Woman of N... Lord Illingworth就是从Lord Henry抽离出来的人物吧。The Portrait of Dorian Gray写在这本之前，两个主人公的很多语录都一样。前一本里Lord Henry作为Dorian Gray的"bad influence"，后半本就鲜少提到，甚至没有交代“下场”。这本里面Lord Illingworth落个“众叛亲离老流氓”也算是圆满了。A Woman of No Importance是目前看过的王尔德作品里最喜欢的，也许是因为有种生气勃勃的希望。离开腐朽的英国上流社会，去美国新大陆自力更生，大约在当时也是trending (展开)
0 有用 le petit chat 2010-10-21 12:47:56
very attractive dialogue which Wilde's always good at.
0 有用 Mooning 2013-08-25 15:56:51
Lord llingworth is humorous, attractive and full of creative ideas..although with those qualities, he is thoroughly a man who deserves no love. no one like him with the opinion that take marrige's ess... Lord llingworth is humorous, attractive and full of creative ideas..although with those qualities, he is thoroughly a man who deserves no love. no one like him with the opinion that take marrige's essence the destruction should be loved. nice for the ending of “a man of no impotrance”.. (展开)
0 有用 Levi 2010-08-04 09:00:25
里面有很多引用了短篇小说的内容。
4 有用 ways and means 2015-04-20 22:16:22
一个人就是一队段子手。
0 有用 redphobiia 2022-09-16 19:31:20
"Men always want to ve a woman's first love... What we like is to be a man's last romance." 王尔德对性别太有见解了，活在19世纪的人却比很多21世纪的男性有见解，果然只有浪漫的酷儿男性才会试图理解女人，这就是我为什么讨厌大部分男作家但却热爱他的原因。
0 有用 fancycat00 2022-09-01 18:27:52
情节一般，但妙语颇多。
0 有用 小甜瓜 2022-03-09 14:53:44
不太喜欢这部，一开始因为演员太丑看不下去，这回总算把剧本看完了。Lord Ilingworth真的很讨人厌，还真以为自己妙语连珠呢…好在后面果然证实是个渣男。所以作者想说的是什么，英国人很虚伪？英国人对女性不够尊重？
0 有用 - - 2021-11-19 22:33:53
告别维多利亚时代
0 有用 夏夏喵酱 2021-08-26 17:39:08
后半部有点无趣