Puritans versus non puritans in Oscar Wilde's drama A Woman of No Importance

Susanti, Neny Kurniawati (2008) Puritans versus non puritans in Oscar Wilde's drama A Woman of No Importance. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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This thesis focuses on Puritans and non Puritans' attitudes and actions, and the moral message of it in A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. There are three questions to answer. First, how are Puritans's attitudes and actions? Second, how are non Puritans' attitudes and actions? Third, what are the moral messages in this drama? .Library research including internet browsing are used to form the conceptual models which are used to find the data. The data corpus of this thesis includes all of the words, phrases, clauses, sentences and even discourses related to Puritans and non Puritans' attitudes and actions. They can be in the form of dialogues or narratives.Sociological approach is used to analyze the data descriptively. Puritans' attitudes and actions can be seen from Mrs Arbuthnot and Hester Worsley's life. Their attitudes and actions are guided by the principles of Puritanism,that is, protecting and rewarding virtue, punishing the wrong doers, becoming hard working persons, marrying and having children, having humble and obedient life,needing self examination, self denying, doing the division of labor on the basic of sex,supporting democrary in society and church, following Sabbatharianism, and having high standard of morality. Non Puritans can be seen from the life of Lord Illingworth, Mrs Allonby, Kelvil,Lord Alfred, Lord Henry, Lady Caroline, and friends of hers. Their attitudes and actions are not guided by the principles of Puritanism, that is not having humble and obedient life, not marrying, not self denying, not having high standard of morality,not doing the division of labor on the basis of sex, not working hard. Mrs. Arbuthnot as the representative of Puritans based conducts upgrades herself from a woman of no importance, at least according to Lord Illingworth,becomes a woman of importance. On the other hand, Lord Illingworth as the representative of non-Puritan based conducts, becomes a man of no importance. This implies the importance of the principles of Puritanism.

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