# Gender Double Standards in A Woman of No Importance

> Theme guide for A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde.

The play exposes the hypocrisy of Victorian society, where men like Lord Illingworth face no consequences for seduction and abandonment, while women like Mrs. Arbuthnot are branded as 'tainted' and socially ruined, as seen in her speech about the woman suffering while the man goes free.

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