In the play an Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde the reader examines a close relationship between political power and social acceptability. Through the interaction of a small group of characters the play embodies broad social and political issues that were occurring during the late 19th century in an English Victorian society. Lord Goring, Sir Robert Chiltern, Lady Chiltern and Mrs Chevely use their wealth to attain political and social respectability in a British aristocracy during …showed first 75 words of 1203 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1203 total…Chiltern, Lady Chiltern and Mrs Cheveley the reader is shown the embodiment of broad social and political issues that are raised during the 1890’s in England. The idealistic lives of these characters are revealed and turned out to be corrupt and immoral. They use their wealth to gain power and respectability through out their social and political lives not worrying themselves about the real issues that are being raised in the society of the 1890’s.