Dillon Ho Professor Mushik English 1C 30 May 2018 An Interpretation of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest allows the reader to question the value of morals and whether they are significant or not. His work may be argued to be “quite useless” to some‚ but may be impactful to others. In this sense‚ it may be both meaningful as a piece of art and entertainment. The “moral” of the play‚ if anything‚ suggests that one in fact can be rewarded by being less than earnest and
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not been leading a double life‚ pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.” (IOBE P.24). Most people would not create another life in order to obtain happiness as their own should give them enough pleasure. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest‚ not one‚ but two characters end up leading a double life with the same name. Jack Worthing is an upper-class man who lives in the country being Cecily Cardew’s guardian. When not in the country but in the
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The Influences of Oscar Wilde Throughout his life Oscar Wilde had many strong influences exerted upon him. During his early childhood his mother influenced him and into college some of his professors and certain philosophers left a substantial impression upon him. Into adulthood these influences leaked out in his writing. These influences gave him ample ideas for writing The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde’s study of the Hellenistic ideals of Epicurus‚ his coddled lifestyle as a child and his devotion
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Oscar Romero strived to remedy the situation in El Salvador‚ much like key thinker Aristotle would have. The core of Aristotle’s ethics is political intent. While Romero was primarily opposed to politics and government in El Salvador‚ the two share the same fundamental belief that the first and foremost concern is the people (In Aristotle’s case; Polis – the Greek city state‚ and in Romero’s; the Church). Anyone outside this community of people or polis‚ is an isolated person‚ a beast or god (Text
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The Canterville Ghost is not just a short story by Oscar Wilde about a haunted mansion with a ghost; it is also a comedy and a parody of British aristocracy. In this story‚ the author makes fun of American pride and love of wealth by having the American Ambassador who buys the mansion say: "I will take the furniture and the ghost at a valuation. I have come from a modern country‚ where we have everything that money can buy". Oscar Wilde’s "The Canterville Ghost" is a story of a family’s relationship
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does not live without experiencing love. On the other hand though‚ love is just as often made a mockery of; it’s depicted as a useless feeling that only distracts people from logic and rational thinking. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ a play by Oscar Wilde set in Victorian England‚ love is mocked which is evident in Cecily’s lust for Ernest‚ Gwendolen’s love for the name Ernest and Algernon’s ideas of marriage. Wilde’s parodying of love is obvious when Cecily falls in love with Ernest‚ Jack’s
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De Profundis Oscar Wilde De Profundis DE PROFUNDIS . . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods‚ and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern‚ so
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The man’s attitude at the beginning of this story‚ was over-confident. “He was a newcomer in the land‚ a chechaquo‚ and this was his first winter‚” but all he did was‚ challenge the nature‚ thinking that he could handle it. He didn’t care about all the warnings that the nature did‚ he was too confident about himself. The nature started to torture him physically‚ with cold. It was his first time in the cold‚ but he never thought it was going to be like that. Now he is starting to appreciate the old-timer’s
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It’s the theory developed by Oscar Lewis (an anthropologist) in 1959. Lewis developed his theory from his experience of Mexico. The culture of poverty is a specific syndrome that grows up in some situations. It requires an economic setting of cash economy‚ a high rate of unemployment and under employment‚ low wages and people with low skills. In the absence of voluntary or state support and stable family‚ the low-income population tends to develop the culture of poverty against the dominant ideology
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After learning about the Victorian Era‚ we watched the film/play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is a satire comedy where the main characters‚ John and Algernon‚ create fictitious people to escape from oppressive social obligations. Before watching the film‚ I had no clue what the play was about. I honestly had never really heard of the characteristics and social classes of the Victorian Era. After watching the play‚ I now have a better understanding
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