An Ideal Husband

An ideal husband
b. By the end of act 2, Lady Chiltern finds out the real past of her husband, Sir Robert. This clearly marks a turning point in their relationship.
We know that Lady Chiltern hasalways seen her husband as an ideal one; this is reflected when she says: “And how I worshipped you! You were to me something apart from common life”. When Lady Chiltern says this we are transmittedhow strong Sir Robert has disappointed her; how she can´t deal with the fact that he isn´t the perfect person she had always thought he was. This explanation would be the same for the quotation whichsays: “oh, when I think that I made of a man like you my ideal!”
However, the tone of this talk changes when Sir Robert answers Lady Chiltern. At first, she is the one who blames him for lying to her,but then Sir Robert tells her: “There was your mistake. There was your error”. Sir Robert ends up blaming her saying: “Why can´t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrouspedestals?” By saying this, Sir Robert starts with his speech of comparison between masculine love and feminine love. He blames his wife for not being able to love him by who he is, by creating of him anon-existent ideal person. This comparison between masculine and feminine love is also transmitted when he says: “[…]but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, theirimperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason”. When he says this, he tries to make her wife feel guilty of not being able to love him by who he really is, he reinforces the idea that menforgive and accept women´s weaknesses and mistakes, that is why he talks about masculine love as “wider, larger, more human”. Sir Robert´s point of view is that real and correct love is that of mentowards women, and he can´t understand why women create ideals of their husbands. Related to this idea is the quote that says “All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive” (women...