“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”
Good heavens!
What that Bunburying was all about?
Come on! What is in the name? Why should you make it an insuperable barrier? Love is important, name is not. Two young men! You should love! As Algernon said you should dare to love wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly! And these girls, these two young girls! They travel with their diaries all the time! All records are handy, who proposed them first, on what day at what time?
“Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. The girls don’t think it right.”
Let me take up my tong and put a few lumps of sugar into my cup. Am I going to consume it? Of course not! What could have put such an idea into your pretty little head? Too much sugar is bad.
But this play of Wilde was too sweet, very lively, and tantalizing too! I enjoyed almost everything in the play except the ending. That handbag event was a little doltish, but not bad for sure. Those dialogues, in plain language, made so many fun moments. I laughed intelligently. The last time I was reading Wilde, was in one of his ghost stories; even the ghost of Wilde was also funny. It seems to me that Wilde is a very clubbable author; I would have enjoyed a jamboree with all his characters along with the ghosts, had he invited me!
This was my first play by Wilde and I loved it. It is simple and very straightforward, but there is one thing that made it a bit different for me. It was that metaphoric implementation! Mixed identities, the craze for a specific name, social possibilities, and cleverness of an act. I am sure if you see a bee after reading this play, you will be able to draw a metaphor of your choice from that bee! It gives you that power.
This play’s popularity could be understood. I saw so many famous lines that I had read here or there, as a quote from Oscar Wilde, in this play.
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his”.
If you are a single man, this play may give you a warning, as it says, by persistently remaining single; a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. So be aware of that! I will recommend this play for having a freshening encounter in your bookish journey if you have not already read it!
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