Sir Robert Chiltern is the first character to discover this. Almost twenty years prior, he was very ambitious, very smart, and very poor. Willing to do practically anything to get ahead, Robert sold a Cabinet secret for a large sum of money - so large, in fact, that it enabled him and his wife to become part of the elite. He is convinced that if he did not have his wealth, he would have nothing.

"SIR ROBERT CHILTERN Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worshi

Wilde wrote this play over a hundred years ago, yet the message still rings true today: people who hold the quest for power above everything else are destined for downfall. The last century is scarred with tragedies caused by the fight for power; the Holocaust, Vietnam, and even Columbine, for example. Still, the struggle rages on, and An Ideal Husband displays what is yet to come.

Now, he is an established member of the parliament, and very close to receiving a seat on the Cabinet. However, it is his secret that causes his troubles: a woman named Mrs. Cheveley has discovered the source of Robert's wealth, and blackmails him.

Yet Lord Goring's father, Lord Caversham, could care less about his son's better qualities. To him, Lord Goring is an unemployed disgrace to the family, because he is already thirty-four years of age and not married. He makes it clear that Lord Goring has to find a wife before the next evening, or else Lord Caversham will choose a wife for him.

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