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The values of the characters in the play Lady's Windermere's Fan are cleverly portrayed through their dialogue and what they focus on in respect to the environment around them. Resulting with the nature of their society being based on what the characters choose to value. The Duchess of Berwick and Lady Windemere choose to value how they want the ball to turn out, not on how they are currently shaping the ball. Lord Darlington on the other hand chooses to value how he can get the most out of his future by focusing on what he needs to do now to get there.Both Berwick and Windemere appear to be in the high class society valuing only social matters in respect to who they should admit to the party. Windemere says, "I will have no one in my house about whom there is any scandal." Meaning they are trying to keep out any men who sleazy and looking for trouble. It matters only that the men are a concern in this matter because Berwick says, "With women it is different." These two women are also arrogant because a man they are talking to, Darlington, fits the exact description of who they want to keep out and he just slips right past them because they are too focused on the future that they are no aware of the present.Darlington bluntly appears to be an arrogant man only looking for a good night out. He sees life as an experience to be discovered and not something to stress over when he casually states, "Because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it" Darlington knows what he values and he can also see what the ladies value which allows him to be clever and sneaky which shows when he says, "I think I had better not Duchess. Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out."
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