Satire In The Importance Of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde

Clearly “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde is a superb piece of satire. In the act, Wilde manages to humorize the daily lives of those in the victorian era, as well as the format in which they made vital decisions and how they were decided. Wilde most likely decided to focus on this topic to make people realize how ridiculous the system was, and why they should change it to realistic beliefs. Such as those of following love and how money and titles do not really make people any different since in the end, we are all still humans. Wilde managed to surprise me with his exaggerated way of interpreting the victorian life to portray how money and titles dominated lives. Wilde satirization of marriage “You don't seem to realise that
in married life three is company, and two is none” (295) made it clear that he found the thoughts of seasons, eligible bachelors, and reliance on assets simply ridiculous. It was especially curious to me how he emphasized the double lives that people were taking; simply to hide from what they knew society would not approve of. However, in their regular lives still supporting the ideals that society held that were ironically against themselves. Since, in that aspect of life, actions were highly restricted to pleasing societies synchronous expectations. Similarly, Wildes main point of writing was to mock the norms of society, thus, his inclusion of diverse character attitudes added to this, and made the act fairly easy to understand as it also portrayed the different types of people in society and how they played a role.