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    In the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky‚ the stories of many teenagers living in the early 1990s are retold. Their stories reveal how challenging high school can be. From family problems to drug and alcohol consumption‚ these teenagers overcome many coming of age obstacles. As if turning sixteen was not challenging enough‚ Charlie deals with friends passing away‚ fitting in‚ and maintaining good grades. Charlie’s life may have changed drastically from age fifteen to age

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    Wilde uses puns throughout this play‚ but the major pun is found within the title. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ the pun‚ widely considered to be the lowest form of verbal wit‚ is rarely just a play on words. The title‚ - The Importance of Being Earnest‚- insinuates the importance of being honest and truthful‚ while playing on the male name‚ Ernest. The pun in the title is a case in point. The earnest/Ernest joke strikes at the very heart of Victorian notions of respectability and duty. Gwendolen

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    My topic of discussion is the humor and irony that is used in the play The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde. In the play the comedy and dramatic irony used made the plot and material engaging. By giving a description of comedy and dramatic irony‚ it is hopeful that you can see and understand why I felt his writing provided the characteristics of both in my analysis. The puns and paradox that were used created the comedic aspect within the play and the dramatic irony which was shown

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    ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ draws on components of absurdity and melodrama in order to provide humour and hence conceal the darker meaning of concepts. Wilde’s use of frequent comedic features‚ in addition to witty paradoxes stated by characters allows forms of deception to appear as amusing and superficial while still holding much darker alternate meanings and subtexts which allows him to draw upon and mock the flaws of Victorian society. The idea of deception through leading a double life

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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower; a Timeless Movie with the Use of Symbolizing Time The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a timeless movie directed by Stephen Chbosky. There are so many little and precise detailing that goes into the movie to make it well done on so many scales. There are lots of forms of film elements used and shown throughout the movie‚ but one particular symbol focuses on is the use of clocks and how it helps shape the movie and the idea Chbosky is trying to get across. The scenes

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Prompt 3 Society tends to have expectations and stereotypes that are actually a corruption of reality. Many people draw assumptions based on the set values of a culture or society. Those that stray or are isolated from those cultural values because of on the gender‚ race‚ class‚ or creed actually reveal these stereotypes and conventional ideas. Throughout the play The Importance of Being Earnest there were a few characters that deviations showed the assumptions of

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    What is satirised by Wilde in ‘The Importance of being Earnest’? The Victorian way of life. The customs of the middle and upper class and the strict social conventions concerning social events‚ the church‚ marriage and love. 2. Why ‘The Importance of being Earnest’ is considered a comedy of manners? Because it makes fun of the mannerisms of the upper class people and their strict code of conduct. 3. What aspects of ‘The Importance of being Earnest’ are farcical? “A farce is a light

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is regarded by many as one of the wittiest plays in the English language. However‚ it is not simply a “trivial comedy‚” as its title proposes‚ but also a cutting satire appraising the conventions of Victorian society‚ chiefly the upper class. Much of Wilde’s social commentary is portrayed through the speech of the dictatorial Lady Bracknell‚ who embodies Victorian upper class conventions. Having ascended to her current high social

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    have 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 PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Czarina Ann B. Baptisma Hum St 25 Ma’am Odal-Devora October 18‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age novel about a 15-year-old boy‚ Charlie‚ who is unable to repress any emotions. The novel was first released on 1999 by MTV Books. It has quietly sold nearly half a million copies.1 Stephen Chbosky was born on January 25‚ 1970 and raised in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. He grew up in Upper

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