Why does Lady Sneerwell spread rumors about others?
Lady Sneerwell ruins reputations by submitting stories to the gossip columns and by paying others to forge incriminating letters. In love with Charles Surface, Lady Sneerwell conspires with Joseph Surface to prevent an engagement between Charles Surface and Maria, who Joseph hopes to marry for her money.
What can be considered as the main theme in Sheridan School for Scandal?
One key theme of society reflected in ‘A School For Scandal’ is of gossiping between women. This concept epitomises the core of the play, and questions why people, women in particular, require gossip in their daily lives.
What does Sir Peter use as an example of Lady Teazle’s excessive spending?
She and Sir Peter argue all the time, often over how much money he allows her, as Lady Teazle wishes to spend huge sums on flowers, carriages, and other luxuries.
How are Joseph and Charles related?
Joseph is Charles’ brother, cunning and ambitious. He wants to marry Maria because of her money, and he plots with Lady Sneerwell to make this happen. He is promiscuous and propositions Lady Teazle to have an affair.
How is Sir Peter related to Maria?
A recently orphaned young woman, Maria is the ward of Sir Peter and thus heiress to his fortune. She is in love with Charles Surface, but is also being courted by Joseph Surface and Sir Benjamin Backbite.
What is the moral of the school for scandal?
Concealment and Exposure. The School for Scandal explores how people hide and are exposed, both literally and figuratively. As characters’ true natures are unmasked, hypocrites are seen for who they really are, while mistaken impressions and unearned reputations are corrected.
Why does Oliver disguise himself?
He disguises himself as a money lender named Mr. Premium to investigate Charles’s spending habits, and is infuriated when he sees Charles living lavishly while driving the family far into debt.
What name does Rosalind assume for her disguised self?
Ganymede
Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare. In the play, she disguises herself as a male shepherd named Ganymede.
Whose wedding is fixed at the end of the school for scandal?
An older man with fixed habits, Sir Peter married the much younger Lady Teazle seven months before the play begins and is having trouble adapting to married life.