A very intelligent novelist, Oscar Wilde, captures the attention of his reader in his satirical work, An Ideal Husband, through a humorous drama full of political scandals and blackmail. Wilde draws his audience into the romantic comedy by placing the reader alongside the characters throughout their battles, in which he highlights their bad habits and flaws. Wilde manages to attract readers by creating the satirical message of his work through satirical elements such as exaggeration, sarcasm and irony. Wilde succeeds in achieving the satirical message he intended to convey to readers through his use of exaggeration. It begins with Mrs. Cheveley spitefully telling Lady Chiltern that her "house" is "a house bought at the price of dishonor." Cheveley, is heartbroken by the past corruption in Sir Robert's life. She expresses to Sir Robert that "the world seemed" much "better" to her only "because" he was "in it" and the "goodness more real because" he had "lived" (62). Wilde exaggerates how much Lady Chiltern loves Sir Robert, to prove his point. Lady Chiltern feels as if Sir Robert makes the world so much better, when in reality he is keeping things from her because he is afraid of how she would react. Although Lady Chiltern feels very distressed about 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 exclaims to her that “it is not the perfect” but it is the “imperfect” that needs love (63). Lord Goring can see that Sir Robert, in fact, 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 most beautiful thing in the world" to exaggerate his love for his wife, which readers pick up on. There is much more to the world than love, but because he loves his wife so much, Wilde begins his ironic aspect through the dialogue of Mabel Chiltern and Lord Goring. Lord Goring exclaims to Mabel that he has multiple "evil qualities" that she is unaware of, but Mabel acknowledges that she "delights" in his "evil qualities" and "would not" have him "part with one of them." of them” (16). This quote symbolizes situational irony. 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 instead Mabel revels in hers. The way she tells Lord that she rejoices in his bad qualities, maybe he starts thinking that 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 needs to tell her the truth because "women have a wonderful instinct about things" and "they find out everything except the obvious” (37). Lord uses a sarcastic tone in an ironic way to tell Sir Robert that he needs to tell the truth to his wife and not keep any secrets from her. Lord Goring states that “other people's wives' secrets are a necessary luxury" (37). He proposes an ironic attitude towards women when he states that they discover everything, “except the obvious”. At the end of the play, Lord Caversham and Mabel