#Lady Windermere’s Fan

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From Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan

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[bleuetfane]

roses in the works of oscar wilde

the picture of dorian gray (1, 2) / salomé (3, 4) / lady windermere’s fan (5) / the remarkable rocket (6) / lord arthur savile’s crime (7) / the birthday of the infanta (8) / an ideal husband (9) / the ballad of reading gaol (10)

[republicanidiots]

"All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde

[variouspolltournaments]

Propaganda

Lady Windermere: the play is named after her fan!! the plot hinges on this fan!@@

Shen Lanzhou: I haven't read Qiang Jin Jiu yet but apparently Shen Lanzhou, the MC, has a collection of fans given to him by the LI, Xiao Chiye, who handmade them. That's so cute.

[el-jujeniodeletras]

Estamos en la cuneta, pero algunos de nosotros estamos mirando las estrellas.

Oscar Wilde. Lady Windermere’s Fan.

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[frnndlcs]

Lady Windermere’s Fan, Ernst Lubitsch, 1925 

[the-final-sentence]

Ah, you’re marrying a very good woman!

Oscar Wilde, from Lady Windermere’s Fan

[gilberttheboy]

I have fallen into the dangerous territory of fixating on minutiae to distract from lack of new content, so here's Lestat wearing a bright green tie and what *looks* like a white carnation. Green carnations, especially worn on the left lapel as he's doing here, became a symbol of queerness popularised by Oscar Wilde.

Something something the equivalent of Lestat wearing plausibly deniable pride merch to meet his bf's family for the first time.

[cursemewithyourkiss]

Ronald Colman as Lord Darlington in LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (1925) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

[marejadilla]

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

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[rubypomegranates]

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan"

[edwinspaynes]

May eventually write an essay on this but it's extremely interesting to note that every Wilde play revolves around a figure who has some kind of secret sin in their past. Mrs. Erlynne from Lady Windermere's Fan is a prime example, as is Sir Robert Chiltern from An Ideal Husband. But in all of these instances, Wilde's narrative casts the sinner as a sympathetic figure, one that the audience should root for despite their past wrongdoings. Cassandra Clare positions Matthew in The Last Hours' main trilogy in much the same way - a character with a sinful secret that we know from CLS, but also a character who goes to great lengths to conceal this secret from the other people around him. And, much as we think that Mrs. Erlynne revealing that she's Lady Windermere's mother is beneficial for all parties, we also think that Matthew's revealing the faerie trick will benefit both him and Charlotte. The audience sees it as the beginning of healing; the character dreads it because it's a defining moment that they're not proud of.

Matthew doesn't just have a ton of Dorian Gray parallels in his worldview and story arc, he also is literally positioned as the protagonist of a Wilde play throughout the series.

(I prattled on about LWF because it's my personal favourite Wilde play, but I'm seriously considering writing a full-on essay with parallels between Matthew and characters in several of them. Idk when, though.)

[totallyveryallosexual]

"There are moments where one must choose between living one's life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world, in it's hypocrisy, demands." - Oscar Wilde

Ahhh! Internally screaming into a pillow! Such a fucking good quote!

Because it applies to so many people and so many situations, but for me, a baby queer, seeing those words written by someone who was gay in a time when it was much more condemned than it is today, it feels like he is talking straight to me. Telling me if he could do it then, I can do it today.

So yeah. To all the other queer people out there, we can do it. We deserve to be unapologetically queer. We deserve to live our lives without hiding.