Robert is the central figure of the full text, Robert is in the upper class of Britain, and in the public eyes, he is a good politician with a clean and honest politics, and a good and gentle husband in his life. But it was such a nearly perfect gentleman, who revealed the contradiction in his character when Mrs. Schaefer revealed the mistakes he had made in his face.
1. in the full text of the ideal and reality, people have very high comments on Robert, and the second act, Madame mark, said, "Gertrude, you have married a model husband. I wish I had such a good fortune for you. " {1} in all the world, including his wife's eyes, Robert has always been a modest gentleman, honest and reliable, and there is no tainted gentleman in his life. But under such a appearance, Robert's heart was hidden in a scandal, selling cabinet secrets to the stock speculator when he was young, so he became rich and quiet. It was a dirty foundation, and Robert knew it in his heart, but he kept in his heart, living in an open and aboveboard image. It is. This is the first paradox that the image of Robert shows us. He is ideal in the eyes of others, and he wants to live the ideal of the same people. All people respect and admire him. On the one hand, he shows a good image to everyone. On the other hand, all the factors of reality make him not go against morality. He wanted to fight with reality, but he felt that he did not do anything too much, for example, he had expressed such ideas, he did not do anything dirty, it was paid by the price. Robert is such a person with contradictory personality who lives in front of the world.
2. resistance and compromise refers to Robert's resistance to Mrs. Schaefer's threat, which refers to the wrong compromise that had been made to maintain his innocent image and everything he had. The contradiction of Robert's character is mainly reflected in his attitude towards Mrs. Schaefer. It is not difficult to see that when Mrs. Schaefer first proposed a fraud in his Argentina canal plan for the first time, Robert answered that it was a particularly disgraceful act and was quite angry at this time. It's rebellious and resolute. But under Mrs. Schaefer's repeated threats, Robert then said to think about it and to reduce the time of consideration to three days from one week to three, when it was time to see that Robert had compromised his dirty secret. In the first act, the contradiction between his resistance and compromise has been revealed. His years of political morality and his wife's harsh moral standards were not allowed to deal with the fraud. He wanted to resist and want to be a clean politician as always, but his rebellion couldn't bear the threat of Mrs. Schaefer. If he insisted against it, then Robert could lose. Everything he has now, his high social status, his respect for others and his beloved wife, he wants to compromise.
3. when Robert came out of reason and impulse, it was introduced that the clear outline of his lips and chin was in sharp contrast to the passion in his eyes, which clearly showed that his passion and reason were incompatible. The description of his appearance laid down his paradoxical character. Passion can be understood as his emotional impulse, reason can be understood as his thought, and the contradiction between his rational and emotional impulse is the main contradiction of Robert's character, which runs through the full text.
In the face of Mrs. Schaefer's threat, his reason told him to choose to refuse the deal, because he knew it was just a speculative fraud that would bring harm to the society, but his emotional impulse also told him to choose to accept that deal, because only in this way could he cover up his own crime. The next mistake, keep everything that you have.
In the face of the mistakes he had made, his reason told him that it was a dirty thing, shame and disgrace; but his emotional impulse did not want to admit the dirty nature of what he had done. In the second act, in the second act of the conversation with the Viscount Goering, he began to admit that he had done a shameful thing, and at last expressed that he did not actually do anything shameful, and that he had paid a price for his success. Robert's feelings drove him to deny the mistakes he had made. Although emotionally, Robert did not think how serious and dishonest the mistake of being a first offender, he finally told him to fight Mrs. Schaefer for the mistakes he had made.
When it was time to tell his wife about the scandal, his reason told him that he needed to tell his wife to live a real life; but his emotional impulse told him not to tell his wife that he was afraid that his wife knew it would dislike or even despise himself, and he would lose her. When Robert and the Viscount Goering told Mrs. Schaefer to struggle with Mrs. Schaefer, he stressed to not let his wife know it, and his feelings told him that he did not want to lose his wife. But at the end of the day he said he wanted to tell the truth and want to live a real life. "If I can tell the truth, then I'll see God!" {2} can see that Robert's heart still wants to tell the truth.
The contradictory performance of Sir Robert's image shows up here: he wants to live in an ideal image, the reality is hidden in a dirty secret, and tries to justify the secret of his own reality; he wants to resist with Mrs. Xie Fuli and do not want to lose his social status that is easy to get. He tends to compromise; he wants to be sensible about his dirty secrets, and is driven by emotion to hide it. He lived in such a contradictory image, and his behavior also affected his wife, Mrs. Chilton.
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