Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ A Trivial Comedy For Serious People is a play about two friends Jack Worthing and Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff. In order to get away from their lives the two men invent fictitious characters to explain their absence (Jack invents Earnest while Algy invents Bunbury) from the country in Jack’s case and town in Algy’s. To complicate matters the two men then fall in love Jack with Gwendolen‚ Algy’s cousin and Algy with Jacks ward Cecily. Both women believe
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Are famous people treated unfairly by the media? Should they be given more privacy‚ or is the price of their fame an invasion into their private lives? Many girls want to be as beautiful as Paris Hilton and many boys want to be as popular as David Beckham. Who doesn’t want to be a celebrity? They have all the things that common people can dream of‚ fans‚ designer clothes‚ luxurious cars‚ and the list goes on. Their lavish style of living keeps them in the eye of public and media. As a result
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society judges the same situation. Oscar Wilde‚ the playwright of The Importance of Being Earnest‚ takes these preconceptions in and inverts the practices that we perceive to be true in order to advocate social and political change. By emphasizing these discrepancies in marriage and the social aristocracy‚ Wilde satirizes Victorian traditions and ultimately advocates change. The Characters in The Importance of Being Earnest melodramatize unlikely matters concerning society and class‚ which illustrate
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epigrams that displays his humour and disrespect towards the society. “Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see‚ if one plays good music‚ people don’t listen‚ and if one plays bad music‚ people don’t talk.” here is Algy’s wit and wisdom being displayed as he is trying to say people do not appreciate good music. He would even praise his own humour from time to time: “It’s perfectly phrased”. All through the play‚ he acts similar to a man who does not have anything better to do but to admire
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any meaning in the larger scheme of life unless it makes you ruminate over where it all went wrong. Mistakes become experiences by what we choose to do with them‚ whether we choose to forget about them ‚or learn from them and emerge as enlightened beings .Hence‚ certainly‚ experience is hardly an alias for a mistake‚ or had it been marriages would have been banned ages ago‚ and love would have become a dream too distant for many. And why just mistakes‚ your encounters with success provide you with
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the Role of the Intrusive narrator/ author: an analysis of the narrative technique. You may think of the ways in which this technique challenges our reading style and habits‚ the ways it affects our level of understanding‚ the ways in which it challenges our understanding of the role of an author. The role of an intrusive narrator consisted in comments on and evaluates characters and actions; establishes what counts as facts and values in the narrative (wikipedia). It mainly point out the presence
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Candide is a humorous‚ far-fetched story satirizing the optimism promoted by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Voltaire uses satire as a means of pointing out injustice‚ cruelty and bigotry that is commonly found in the human society. Although the tale seems light and comical‚ Voltaire has more serious intentions behind the laughable plot line. Candide can therefore be classified as a satire because it combines humor and wit to bring about a change in society’s view on matters such
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Charlie Kelmeckis‚ is an introverted and intellectually gifted teenager who is just starting his freshman year of highschool all alone. Then two seniors‚ Sam and Patrick‚ help him learn how to participate in life instead of watching others live it for him. He quickly is given the gift of true friendship‚ love‚ music and so much more‚ while a young english teacher and aspiring playwright helps him develop his skills as a writer. Though as all things that come up must go down‚ as his new friends start
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Explore the dramatic significance of Lady Bracknell in Act 1 Throughout Act 1‚ Oscar Wilde uses the character of Lady Bracknell as a highly comedic character who causes the entire play to come together by unknowingly creating a calamitous chain of events to occur by her refusal to let her daughter Gwendolyn marry to Jack Worthing. She is presented as strict‚ uptight woman who is very much the Matriarch of the family. One way Wilde presents this idea is when Lady Bracknell is interviewing Jack on
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understand that these people are just normal kids that got mistreated badly. Nobody wants to be an “outsider”‚ but sometimes you become one for various of different reasons like being a new kid‚ being smarter than most kids‚ wanting to be alone‚ and more. Being new at a school is one of the top problems of a kid being an outsider. Kids do not know anybody‚ they do not know the school‚ and that makes them an easy
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