A very intelligent novelist, Oscar Wilde, attracts the attention of his reader in his satirical play, An Ideal Husband, through a humorous drama filled with political scandals and of blackmail. Wilde draws his audience into the romantic comedy by placing the reader with the characters throughout their struggles, in which he points out their bad habits and flaws. Wilde manages to attract readers by creating the satirical message of his play through satirical elements such as exaggeration, sarcasm, and irony. Wilde manages to achieve his intended satirical message to readers through his use of exaggeration. It begins with Mrs. Cheveley unkindly telling Lady Chiltern that her "house" is "a house bought at the price of dishonor." Cheveley, she is heartbroken by the past corruption in Sir Robert's life. She expresses to Sir Robert that “the world seemed” to him “much more” beautiful” simply “because” he was “in it” and that “the goodness was more real because” he had “lived” (62). Wilde exaggerates how much Lady Chiltern loves Sir Robert – in order to prove his point. Lady Chiltern feels like Sir Robert is making the world so much better, when in reality he is hiding things from her because he is afraid of her reaction. Although Lady Chiltern feels a lot of distress because of how she has just discovered the truth about her husband's wealth, it is obvious that Lady Chiltern and Sir Robert still love each other. Sir Robert shouts to him that “it is not the perfect” but that it is “the imperfect” who needs love (63). Lord Goring can see that Sir Robert actually loves Lady Chiltern when Sir Robert tells him that he loves his wife because "love is the 'greatest thing' in the world" and "nothing but love" (75) . Oscar Wilde has Sir Robert say that "love is the greatest thing in the world" in order to exaggerate the love for his wife, which readers pick up on. There is much more to the world than love, but because he loves his wife, Wilde begins his ironic aspect through the dialogue of Mabel Chiltern and Lord Goring. Lord Goring exclaims to Mabel that he has multiple "bad qualities" that she does not know about, but Mabel admits that she "delights in" his "bad qualities" and that she "would not » that he “separates himself from just one”. of them” (16). This quote symbolizes the irony of the situation. As a reader, you wouldn't expect Mabel to tell Lord Goring that she likes his bad qualities. Most people would like to overlook a person's bad qualities, but Mabel delights in hers. The way she tells the Lord that she delights in his bad qualities, maybe he is starting to think he is perfect and ignores his bad qualities. Later in the play, Lord Goring has a conversation with Sir Robert and tells him that he need not hide anything from his wife and that he must tell her the truth because "women have a wonderful instinct for things” and they “discover everything except the obvious” (37). Lord uses a sarcastic tone in an ironic way to tell Sir Robert that he must tell his wife the truth and not keep secrets from her. Lord Goring says that “the secrets of other people’s wives are a necessary luxury” (37). He offers an ironic attitude towards women when he asserts that they discover everything, “except the obvious”. At the end of the play, Lord Caversham and Mabel