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    The Importance of Not Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s hilarious play‚ "The Importance of Being Earnest‚" is based in Victorian England and follows the story of Mr. Jack Worthing; a lovesick man who lies regarding his identity so he may escape to the city. While his lies start unraveling‚ chaos breaks out. In the last line of the play‚ Jack claims that‚"he has learned the vital importance of being earnest." This conclusion brings the reader to wonder‚ does a tiger ever change it’s stripes? Does the

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    Trivial Comedy for Serious People‚" The Importance of Being Earnest jokingly criticized Victorian manners and morals and attacking the society of the rich and luxurious. Oscar Wilde incorporated his own beliefs and ideology into the play by alluding to Victorian society "lets duplicity led to happiness." It is this "happiness" Wilde’s play focuses on by concentrating the theme of the play on marriage. Alluding to marriage‚ The Importance of Being Earnest begins with the witty and selfish Algernon

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    Research Paper The Importance of Being Earnest This novel‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ elaborates on the importance of telling the truth. You have two best friends‚ Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing‚ who create other people in their life. The plot of the story brings to the forth the concept of being honest. For example‚ Algernon admits that for him to be seen as polite‚ he makes up an invalid friend called Bunbury. On the other hand‚ Jack also comes up with a fake brother called Earnest

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    Worksheet: Novel analysis Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Author: Stephen Chbosky Genre: Epistolary novel Nationality: American The publication year: 1999 Information about the author: Stephen Chbosky was born January 25th in 1970. He is an American writer and film director‚ and is best known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen was born in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. He is of Polish‚ Slovak‚ Irish and Scottish descent. Chbosky graduated in 1988 from Upper St. Clair High

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    Hypocrisy of Being Earnest The Victorian era was a time of smugness and pomposity for the newly rich generation who quickly rose in class during and after the industrial revolution. Nothing was as it seemed in this day when earnestness was allegedly the most prized attribute a man could possess. In Oscar Wilde’s classical satire‚ “The Importance of Being Earnest‚” every character embodies the ideas and values of this “earnest” age. Oscar Wilde’s primary character in “The Importance of Being Earnest

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    Lauren Skarupsky  English III Honors   Summer Work    The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Reading Questions  1. Explain how Wilde uses satire to critique Victorian society.    Throughout the entire play Oscar Wilde critiques the Victorian society through each of  the characters. The characters represent the Victorian era but have twisted views on the major  emotions love and marry that are mentioned in the play continuously. Wilde depicts the  society in which the characters live in as superficial

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    To Be Infinite The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a poignant coming of age story about a teenage boy named Charlie who is entering into his freshman year of high school and trying to cope with death‚ life‚ friends‚ and sexuality. Chobosky does a remarkable job at describing all of these issues through the eyes of a shy‚ introvert teen. The reader will be shocked‚ amazed‚ and grateful to join Charlie in his walk down the road of realization and growing up. The story is actually

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    The alienation of Tereza from her body In Milan Kundera’s‚ The Unbearable Lightness of Being‚ Tereza faces a conflict in which she feels alienated from her body. This result from a quantity of reasons such as her interactions with certain people‚ how she acts in these situations‚ and her inability to picture and create her own self-identity. Throughout the chapters‚ we see Tereza slowly decay from her moral roots and seek to find a different measure of pleasure that will give her happiness in

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    The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky captures the experience of growing up through the eyes of Charlie‚ the narrator. He writes letters addressed to “friend” that explain his journey through his first year of high school with the help of his new senior friends Sam and Patrick. Charlie is exposed to drugs‚ alcohol and love as he struggles to fit in and find the will to “participate” in life. Stephen Chbosky’s book the perks of being a wallflower offers a unique perspective on life

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    In his play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde portrays his beliefs by satirizing the beliefs and values of his society. Within Act I‚ Algernon states that “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Wilde’s witty epigram projects a major theme within the play. It attacks the perception of fixed truth. The major target of Wilde’s scathing social criticism is the hypocrisy that society creates. Often in Victorian society‚ its participants acted in overly sincere‚ polite ways while

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