Vera or the Nihilists
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A melodramatic tragedy set in Russia, Vera, or the Nihilists is loosely based on the story of Vera Zasulich. It was the first play that Wilde wrote. It features Russian revolutionaries who seek to assassinate a reform-minded Emperor. Though Wilde's fictional Emperor differs from the actual Alexander, contemporary events in Russia – as published in the British press of the time – clearly influenced Wilde.
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- Pages: 112 pages
- ISBN: 9781419192463 / 1419192469
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For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. Oscar Wilde, Vera or the Nihilists // Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. Oscar Wilde, Vera or the Nihilists // I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him. Oscar Wilde, Vera or the Nihilists //
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I never thought that an Oscar Wilde play could ever be disappointing to me in the slightest, but I actually did not enjoy this play as much as I thought that I would. "Vera, or the Nihilists" is a play about a 19th-century Russia dealing with a group opposed... Wilde, I'm glad you made the switch to comedy, because this tragedy is not one of your best works. It's readable, but the ending is agonizingly inevitable, and for being an assassin at the center of the action, Vera's character is flat and predictable. Some of Wilde's irony and wit lurks around corners here and there, but it's mostly... Not my most favorite of the Wilde plays I have read as it deals with the political times of Russia in the nineteen hundreds. What Wilde says is true though and offers the reader the ability to know that through all tyrannies there are people who refuse to be repressed no matter what the consequences will be. Freedom comes with lots...
