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Date: October 2, 2014 at 12:14:28 PM MDT
To: seth weidenaar <sethweidenaar@gmail.com>
Subject: 4112

       From a piece of Lady Windermere's Fan, the playwright reveals how society reflects upon itself through social structure and dominance. As for the three characters in this play, they are portrayed as very judgmental and  arrogant. Arrogant and judgmental to where both the Duchess of Berwick and Lady Windermere are too busy hosting a party where they seem to only care about the status and who will arrive at the party. All while Lord Darlington seems to go off on his own and think about how he will enjoy this party himself as being a Casanova.
       In the play, Windermere is seen to be judgmental by hosting a party where she says it will be small and simple to means that only a few selected people are invited, as Darlington points out by saying "Very small, very early, and very select, Duchess" (22-23). By Windermere hosting this party, it also points out the nature of their society to only speak and interact with people in the same class while not looking any further from that.

      As for Berwick, she is potrayed as arrogant and snobby. In the beginning of the play scene, while she came in with her daughter, Berwick did not allow her daughter to greet Darlington, "I won't let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked" (4-5), for she thinks that Darlington is not worth her daughters time and judging that he is not a good man. Also in the text, Lady Berwick criticizes tea made from Markby's son in law where she says "Such bad tea too. It was quite undrinkable. I wasn't at all surprised" (15-16). Her actions can be marked as very judgmental and arrogant.

      For Lord Darlington, he is portrayed as a wicked and sly man who only cares about himself. In the text, when Berwick arrives she calls him "far too wicked" (5), in sense of her knowing his character. Also, Darlington seems to be as a man who is straight forward when he says "Very small, very early, and very select" (22-23) referring to when Windermere was trying to sound pleasant about her selective party. But Darlington's true character shows when he says that marriage is useless and is "a game...that is going out of fashion" (46-47), showing us that he has no means to marriage and that his views of society is a bit different from others.

      So in all, the society and characters seem to be arrogant and judgmental as a whole. Where all three characters are seemingly straightforward and do everything to gain a higher position in their social structure.