Oscar Wilde mocks the Victorian society, he thinks the society is pretentious, full of self-importance, ignorance, and idleness. He thinks that upper-class Victorian society has some ideas that are nonsensical.
His character Ernest/Jack leads a double life, he was discovered as a baby in a handbag in the cloakroom of Victoria Station. He was adopted and leads a double life because he portrays himself as a major landowner and a number of servants that hide his poor past. He creates a false brother that is an irresponsible black-sheep, so he can lead a scandalous life without getting in trouble.
Jack has a respect for all these Victorian rules and societies social rules - such as marriage and the money that comes with it - even though he knows they are false the same way he is. He pretends to disapprove his own behaviors as a way to portray a right and just character to the Victorian society.
Answer: The narrator is then executed by the hangman, as by then there is no one left who will defend him. The poem contains four-line stanzas with the rhyming pattern AABB. The poem is usually cited as an indictment of those who stand idly by while others commit grave evil or injustice, such as during the Holocaust.
You're answer would be A because it clearly states the thesis of the paragraph.
6. What is the most important part of the representative democracy?
A. Legislature
B. Majority rule
C. Suffrage
D. Bill of Rights
Student Answer: C
Answer: Incorrect
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9. What was a provision of the Magna Carta?
A. Trial by jury of peers
B. A step toward providing nobles with legislative authority
C. King's power expanded
D. Expanded rights to all English citizens
Student Answer: D
Answer: Incorrect
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10. What happened as a result of the so-called Intolerable Acts?
A. The famous Boston Tea Party was planned.
B. A Committee of Correspondence was formed.
C. The port of Boston was closed.
D. A massacre occurred on the Boston Commons.
Student Answer: B
Answer: Incorrect
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19. The result of the Battle of Bunker Hill was a/an
A. narrow victory for the Americans.
B. clear victory for the Americans.
C. unqualified British victory.
D. inconclusive end.
Student Answer: C
Answer: Incorrect
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