#Sir Robert Chiltern

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby & Sporting, Part Two: 1. Victoria (2016): shooting 2. Maurice (1987): cricket 3. Poirot (2008): snooker 4. An Ideal Husband (1999): golf 5. Shadows In The Sun (2009): biking 6. Bertie And Elizabeth (2002): shooting 7. Bertie And Elizabeth (2002): tennis 8. You, Me, And It (1993): rugby 9. Lady Godiva (2008): sword fighting 10. A Summer Story (1988): biking

[alastairstom]

May eventually write an essay on this but it's extremely interesting to note that every Wilde play revolves around a figure who has some kind of secret sin in their past. Mrs. Erlynne from Lady Windermere's Fan is a prime example, as is Sir Robert Chiltern from An Ideal Husband. But in all of these instances, Wilde's narrative casts the sinner as a sympathetic figure, one that the audience should root for despite their past wrongdoings. Cassandra Clare positions Matthew in The Last Hours' main trilogy in much the same way - a character with a sinful secret that we know from CLS, but also a character who goes to great lengths to conceal this secret from the other people around him. And, much as we think that Mrs. Erlynne revealing that she's Lady Windermere's mother is beneficial for all parties, we also think that Matthew's revealing the faerie trick will benefit both him and Charlotte. The audience sees it as the beginning of healing; the character dreads it because it's a defining moment that they're not proud of.

Matthew doesn't just have a ton of Dorian Gray parallels in his worldview and story arc, he also is literally positioned as the protagonist of a Wilde play throughout the series.

(I prattled on about LWF because it's my personal favourite Wilde play, but I'm seriously considering writing a full-on essay with parallels between Matthew and characters in several of them. Idk when, though.)

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

“An ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde: Review

This book could have been really amazing if it wasn't for it happy ending which ruined everything.

Mrs Cheveley and Lord Goring deserved to be together (page 55 to 59), they have an incredible dynamic/chemistry. Even Sir Robert Chiltern agrees to this "You are well suited to each other". I really didn't see coming his affection for Miss Mabel Chiltern, that was absurd (page 67, 68) and even Sir Robert Chiltern agrees to it, "Arthur cannot bring Mabel the love that she deserves."

Until this point, I'm still wondering the morality of the story (page 78). At least Les liaisons dangereuses is far more better and ended way better.

The book is full sarcasm, with surreal conversations.

Also, why introduce Vicomte de Nanjac at the beginning of the story to never hearing from him ever again (page 4)?

It is said at page viii that "The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours", but at page 71, Sir Robert Chiltern said "For two days I have been in terror". Consequently the action of the play took place during forty-two hours (2 full day). So there is something wrong.

Here a passage that described Lord Goring to perfection, "Why, he rides in the Row at ten o'clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes hi clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you? (page 2)" and the other one at page 7, "Thirty-four, but always says he is younger. A wellbred, expressionless face. He is clever, but would not like to be thought so. A flawless dandy, he would be annoyed if he were considered romantic. He plays with life, and is on perfectly good terms with the world. He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage." (A modern Andréa - Hell)

Mrs Cheveley is "a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night", Lord Goring's words. I like Mrs Cheveley's mind too, trying to blackmail Sir Robert Chiltern in order to get what she wants (page 15-16). She is so damn cunning. At page 26, I thought she was a spy, but I was wrong. There is one thing I didn't understand, it's Mrs Cheveley's relationship with Baron Arnheim (page 52).

Poor Lady Chiltern, jealous (page 20) and naive (page 23 and 43), and of course she is discovered everything and react poorly (page 30).  

The title "Ideal (husband)" is mentioned at page 22, 43 and 48.

The mystery of the diamant bracelet is revealed at page 60. And I thought innocently that Lord Goring gifted her the bracelet, oh wrong of me.

At the end (page 75), Lord Goring is using Mrs Cheveley's tactics to obtain what he wants. But when he does it, it's ok, nevertheless when Mrs Cheveley's does it it is wrong. Shame.

Beautiful quotes: - Page 1: "Horribly tedious! Never know why I go. Never know why I go anywhere." - Page 3: "Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be." - Page 5: "Oh! Mrs Cheveley goes everywhere there, and has such pleasant scandals about all her friends." - Page 6: "To attempt to classify you, Mrs Cheveley, would be an impertinence. But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays." & "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are." - Page 16: "I will give you any sum of money you want. Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is." - Page 17: "English men always get romantic after a meal, and that bores me dreadfully." - Page 21: "One's past is what one is", "Robert are you telling me the whole truth? Why do you ask me such a question? Why do you ask me such a question? Why do you not answer it?" & "I am not changed. But circumstances alter things." - Page 25: "Well, at the worst it would simply be a psychological experiment. All such experiments are terribly dangerous. Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. It it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living...", "Men who every day do something of the same kind themselves. Men who, each one of them, have worse secrets in their own lives. That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own" & "Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not". - Page 28: "I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood." - Page 33: "Of which I know nothing by experience, though I know something by observation." - Page 35: "Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf." - Page 37: "What a dreadful prospect." - Page 38: "The higher education of men is what I should like to see. Men need it so sadly. They do, dear. But I am afraid such a scheme would be quite unpractical. I don't think man has much capacity for development." - Page 41: "Do you know, Gertrude, I don't mind your talking morality a bit. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. You dislike me. I am quite aware of that. And I have always detested you. And yet I have come here to do you a service" & "In this world like meets like. It is because your husband is himself fraudulent and dishonest that we pair so well together. Between you and him there are chasms. He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us." - Page 46: "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance, Phipps". - Page 47: "However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. I am not expected at the Bachelors', so I shall certainly go there", "Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time?" & "During the Season, I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday in every month, from four to seven." - Page 48: "Bachelors are not fashionable any more. They are a damaged lot. Too much is known about them." - Page 51: "My dear father, if I am to get married, surely you will allow me to choose the time, place, and person? Particularly the person", "In married life affection comes when people thoroughly dislike each other, father, doesn't it?" - Page 52: "Oh! Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead." - Page 55: "You are mad. What have I to do with her intrigues with you? Let her remain your mistress! You are well suited to each other. She, corrupt and shameful - you, false as a friend, treacherous as an enemy even" "I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice. Oh pray don't. One should never give a woman anything that she can't wear in the evening." - Page 57: "My dear Mrs Cheveley, you have always been far too clever to know anything about love", "I don't mind bad husbands. I have had two. They amused me immensely" & "When I saw you last night at the Chilterns'. I knew you were the only person I had ever cared for, I ever have cared for anybody, Arthur." - Page 58: "Oh there is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband" & "Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little. It is a commercial transaction. That is all. There is no good mixing sentimentality in it. I offered to sell Robert Chiltern a certain thing. If he won't pay me my price, he will have to pay the world a greater price." - Page 64: "My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time not one's own." - Page 65: "Why don't you try to do something useful in life? I am far too young. I hate this affection of youth, sir. It is a great deal too prevalent nowadays. Youth isn't an affectation. Youth is an art." - Page 76: "Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken."

What a waste this end.

Bonsoir. Thank you, next.

[astroneatly]

Two marvelous plays from the undying Oscar Wilde. I have a soft spot for plays, and though I have not read many, the outlook for the year is leaning toward a few more of them. An Ideal Husband, and a Woman of No Importance. A couple of comedic skits that entwine various persons in gossip and rumor. People had been waywardly cast into one another’s beneficence (and maleficence) to no devising of their own.

The first play, concerns Lord Arthur Chiltern and his politics. His marriage to his wife, and loyalty to her put him at odds against blackmail which Mrs. Cheveley has abetted. She would ask of him to arrange and endorse a scheme to establish a trade route with the Argentine Canal, in lieu of the Suez Canal which pioneered trading with India. This blackmail would humiliate the Lord publicly, and with his wife- who implores him, demands him not to be persuaded. Asks of their secretary, Lord Goring, to intercept a few untoward missives that are in Mrs. Cheveley’s possession. Mrs. Cheveley and Mrs. Chiltern have a lasting feud from their school days that, seems to have made one and another despise one another. Gertrude believes of her husband an ideal husband, someone who has “brought into the political life of our time a nobler atmosphere, a finer attitude towards life,” Sir Robert Chiltern, meanwhile, decides love, more than anything concerned- is far more important than blackmail.

A woman of no importance is about a wager, about whether kissing a woman full on the lips, having not her permission, would repulse her or otherwise. What would happen to a good American girl, who is, hysterically vowed to Lord Illingworth’s ill-begotten son.

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.” #Oscar Wilde

[notjustamaninahat]

Thanks for the tag, @cinemaocd. This was fun.

Of course I used Jeremy Northam characters to describe myself! What else would you expect? ;)  And yes I did indeed have all these images on hand. My hard drive is bursting with JN pics. Just ask my husband.

As for tagging 10 people: if you’re reading this consider yourself tagged! I’d love to see what you come up with.

[hadescavedish]

Anthony Valentine would've been perfect to play Viscount Goring from An Ideal Husband :( I can just vividly imagine that lol. (srsly. But also he'd accuse us being typecasting lol)

[scarletzfever]

Sir Robert Chiltern spoke,

There was your mistake. There was your error. The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you places on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of clay, Women as well as men: but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by her own hands, or by the hands of others, that love should come to cure us—else what use is love at all? All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. A man’s love is like that. It is wider, larger, more human than a woman’s. Women think that they are making ideals of men. What they are making of us are false idols merely. You made your false idol of me, and I had not the courage to come down, show you my wounds, tell you my weaknesses. I was afraid that I might lose your love, as I have lost it now. And so, last night you ruined my life for me—yes, ruined it! What this woman asked of me was nothing compared to what she offered to me. She offered security, peace, stability. The sin of my youth, that I had thought was buried, rose up in front of me hideous, horrible, with its hands at my throat. I could have killed it for ever, sent it back into its tomb, destroyed its record, burned the one witness against me. You prevented me. No one but you, you know it. And now what is there before me but public disgrace, ruin, terrible shame, the mockery of the world, a lonely dishonorable life, a lonely dishonorable death, it maybe, some day? Let women make no more ideals of men! let them not put them on alters and bow before them, or they may ruin other lives as completely as you—you whom I have so wildly loved—have ruined mine!

He passes from the room. Lady Chiltern rushes towards him, but the door is closed when she reaches it. Pale with anguish, bewildered, helpless, she sways like a plant in the water. Her hands, outstretched, seem to tremble in the air like blossoms in the wind. Then she flings herself down beside the sofa and buries her face. Her cries are like the sobs of a child.

ACT DROP

-Ideal Husband, By Oscar Wilde

[jaigeddes]

HS2 tunnellers clock up first mile under Chilterns

HS2’s first TBM drive has passed the one-mile mark cutting through a mix of chalk and flint beneath the Chiltern hills just outside London.

Launched in May, TBM Florence is one of two identical machines excavating the twin 10-mile-long tunnels.

During her first mile, Florence and her crew have installed more than 5,500 separate segments, each weighing around 8.5 tonnes.

A second machine, named ‘Cecilia’ is a short way behind, with both TBMs expected to break out in around three years’ time.

Both TBMs are operated by HS2’s main works contractor, Align – a joint venture formed of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine, and VolkerFitzpatrick.

Align Project Director Daniel Altier said: “I am delighted with the progress that Florence has made since its launch in May, with Cecilia not far behind.

“All the spoil from the TBMs is converted into slurry before being pumped back to our South Portal site, just inside the M25, where it is processed and used for landscaping on site. This is, and will continue to be, a huge logistical challenge, as Florence and Cecilia continue their journey through the Chilterns.

“Florence reaching the 1 mile point is a great achievement, however we still have a long way to go.”

Each of the separate northbound and southbound tunnels will require 56,000 precision engineered, fibre-reinforced concrete wall segments – which are all being made at the south portal of the tunnel, next to the M25.

Approximately 2.7 million cubic metres of material will be excavated during the construction of the tunnels and used for landscaping around the south portal site.

Once construction is complete, this will help create around 90 hectares of wildlife-rich chalk grassland habitats.

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HS2 tunnellers clock up first mile under Chilterns

HS2’s first TBM drive has passed the one-mile mark cutting through a mix of chalk and flint beneath the Chiltern hills just outside London.

Launched in May, TBM Florence is one of two identical machines excavating the twin 10-mile-long tunnels.

During her first mile, Florence and her crew have installed more than 5,500 separate segments, each weighing around 8.5 tonnes.

A second machine, named ‘Cecilia’ is a short way behind, with both TBMs expected to break out in around three years’ time.

Both TBMs are operated by HS2’s main works contractor, Align – a joint venture formed of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine, and VolkerFitzpatrick.

Align Project Director Daniel Altier said: “I am delighted with the progress that Florence has made since its launch in May, with Cecilia not far behind.

“All the spoil from the TBMs is converted into slurry before being pumped back to our South Portal site, just inside the M25, where it is processed and used for landscaping on site. This is, and will continue to be, a huge logistical challenge, as Florence and Cecilia continue their journey through the Chilterns.

“Florence reaching the 1 mile point is a great achievement, however we still have a long way to go.”

Each of the separate northbound and southbound tunnels will require 56,000 precision engineered, fibre-reinforced concrete wall segments – which are all being made at the south portal of the tunnel, next to the M25.

Approximately 2.7 million cubic metres of material will be excavated during the construction of the tunnels and used for landscaping around the south portal site.

Once construction is complete, this will help create around 90 hectares of wildlife-rich chalk grassland habitats.

from https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2021/09/30/hs2-tunnellers-clock-up-first-mile-under-chilterns/

[mundo-misterio]

Reseña de la película An Ideal Husband (1999)

Reseña de la película An Ideal Husband (1999)

La obra cuenta la historia de Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam), una estrella parlamentaria en ascenso que ha sido un modelo de honestidad durante toda su carrera, excepto al principio, cuando compró información secreta del gobierno de un barón, que le pagó generosamente. Sir Robert es adorado por su esposa (Cate Blanchett), cuyos altos estándares no le permitirían casarse con un tramposo y un…

[oscarwetnwilde]

An Ideal Husband (1999:) Hand acting.

[architectnews]

Grimshaw unveils latest HS2 ventilation shaft disguised as barn

Architecture studio Grimshaw has revealed its latest barn-shaped ventilation shaft that will be built near Chalfont St Giles in the Chilterns as part of the UK's HS2 high-speed railway.

Designed as the partner to the Chalfont St Peter ventilation shaft, which was also designed by Grimshaw, the headhouse building for the shaft will be disguised as barn to lessen its impact on the surrounding countryside.

As with the shafts at Chalfont St Peter, Little Missenden and Amersham, the Chalfont St Giles shaft will provide ventilation to a 10-mile-long tunnel that is being built for High Speed 2 (HS2) under the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

The Chalfont St Giles ventilation shaft will be disguised as a barn

Set within a fold in the Chiltern hills near the village of Chalfont St Giles to the north-west of London, the shaft will be topped by several structures designed by Grimshaw to resemble a grouping of agricultural buildings.

Clad in pre-weathered grey zinc, the single-storey main headhouse will have a form similar to a barn. Its cladding will be contrasted with bronze coloured gable ends and doors.

It is being built in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Alongside the main building, a transformer substation and ventilation outlet with single-pitched roofs will also be clad in zinc.

The whole fenced grouping will be built on a blue brick base.

The buildings will be clad in weathered zinc

The group of buildings along with access hatches will stand above a large basement structure containing ventilation equipment to regulate air quality and temperature in the tunnel 43 metres below.

It will also include safety equipment to remove smoke in the event of a fire and be an access point for emergency services.

Grimshaw collaborated with Align JV – a team made up of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick – and its design partners Jacobs and Ingerop-Rendel on the plans for the ventilation tunnel.

HS2 is a high-speed railway line that will link the UK's two largest cities – London and Birmingham – and extend north in two branches to connect Manchester and Leeds. The London-Birmingham section is scheduled to complete in 2033 with the entire project due to be finished in 2035.

Along with designing the ventilation shaft headhouses, Grimshaw is also designing the HS2 station at Birmingham Curzon Street.

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[donanacomunica]

Fuente. Ciudad de la Cultura. Sábado 24 “UN MARIDO IDEAL” (Programa Platea. INAEM) Secuencia 3 Artes y Comunicación, S.L. Teatro Municipal Salvador Távora 21:00 horas Público adulto Precio: 12€ (9€ reducido DEBE ACREDITARSE carné joven, pensionistas, personas con discapacidad reconocida, carné cultural) Límite de Aforo (140 personas). Sinopsis: “El ministro de asuntos exteriores —Sir Robert Chiltern— es un marido ideal para su mujer Lady Chiltern, un político brillante y un perfecto caballero. Ante el resto de la sociedad ambos se muestran como un matrimonio ideal y armonioso. Esta armonía se ve amenazada cuando irrumpe en escena la malévola y seductora Mrs. Cheveley que chantajea a Robert amenazándole con revelar un oscuro secreto de su pasado que le permitió a él forjar su admirable carrera política, su fortuna y su matrimonio. La corrupción al primer plano. Acorralado, le pide consejo a su amigo de toda la vida, Lord Arthur Goring, conocido por todos en la alta sociedad por su inteligencia y su vestuario: todo un dandi. Y muy ambiguo en su concepción del amor. Al fin y al cabo, es el trasunto de Oscar Wilde. Entre la política, la miseria humana, el thriller político y las relaciones de pareja se mueve la comedia, llena de ironía y provocación”. (en Almonte, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGkLNl5gJfK/?igshid=1cr8tsy5gv3ge

[notjustamaninahat]

I feel like we gave Sir Robert Chiltern short shrift during last week’s Face Fuzz Friday. The poor guy got buried under all the Sir Robert Morton posts. So here he and his mustache are again this week. Enjoy!

Jeremy Northam in An Ideal Husband (1999).

[hadescavedish]

Obviously I need to sleep. I'll think about Dominic Angelo and Lord Travers this time

[whatmakesyoulove]

Cate Blanchett Choice Awards > > > >  Best "Early” Movie Cate was in [third place] An Ideal Husband

“Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously." - Jeremy Perkins