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"The Model Millionaire" Oscar Wilde. Essay: Describe and analyze the character of Hughie. Part 2
In the novel, some themes like « war » are mentioned, and Hughie seems not familiar with that. Indeed, war is an adult theme, in which only men are generally involved. His father left him a cavalry sword, but Hughie did not seem to care about that. We dont know if he threw it away or sold it. In the best case, he only kept it in a corner and it is gathering dust. The Colonel, who is also Laura’s father, is very fond of Hughie, but the contrary does not seem to be truth.
The relationship he has with Laura seems to be strong, but I rather see a mother-son relationship that a man-woman one. « Hughie looked very sad […] and had to go to Laura for consolation ». Children get quick upset and sad as well as they are often looking for care and attention.
All this goes to show that Hughie is a man with no formation, no critical mind, and the only reason of his success in marrying Laura is his artless. The mirror experience should have convinced Hughie not to continue the way he lives. We forgive easily the innocents, but we do not care very much about them.
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"The Model Millionaire" Oscar Wilde. Essay: Describe and analyze the character of Hughie. Part 1
It is hard to find someone generous enough to give a couple of pounds to a person in need of money, so expecting from a Baron dressed up as a beggar to give 10’000 to a young and inexperienced man is even more impossible.
Nevertheless, stories are stories and Hugh Erskine could have faith in his luck. This good-looking and delightful man had only beauty as a weapon. On the other side, he was not intelligent enough to even argue. Carefree with a happy-go-lucky side, he was easily discouraged by words. He was rather interested about horse-racing and magazines. In addition to that, he had no profession and in love with Laura.
Hughie gives us the feeling that he is living hand to mouth although he does not look poor. The only source of income we know he has is two hundred a year thanks an old aunt. I think that Hughie is acting and living like a child lost in a self-centered world of either rich or poor people.
Hugh Erskine is not interested about learning new things and he is not intelligent. Culture is for him what school is for children: a torture. The inheritance of his father went lost between his other hobbys and he could not help to concentrate on studies or an apprenticeship for example, which would have helped him on finding a job and earn the £10’000 required to marry Laura.
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My first entry.
Well, this is it. I've signed in to italki and I hope that this is going to be an interesting experience... I try to improve my language in english because nowadays, this language has a very big importance around the world. I've looked up in wikipedia: around 400 millions people are native speakers and 1.4bilion people understand it! I also learn german because here, in Switzerland, it's the most spoken language. In fact, Switzerland has four national languages: german, french, italian and romansh. That is pretty uncommon for a small country with approximately 8 million inhabitants.
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