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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| | | |Abstract： Oscar Fingal O ’Flahertie Wills Wilde is a world-renowned master of aestheticism‚ whose masterpiece The Importance | |of Being Earnest was regarded as a great success in the field of aestheticism. From my point of view‚ in this work‚ Wilde not | |only
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importance of being Earnest written by Oscar wilde‚ he gives us two characters Jack and Algernon these two characters live double lives to get out of situations that they do not desire to be in‚ In Victorian society men and woman would have to uphold there respect and duties at all time. The two men create "Bunburying" which allows them to misbehave without upsetting there piers and letting go of their high moral standards of the upper class. Jack creates Ernest his sick brother to get out of situations
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Being Earnest‚ to be “Earnest” is to be “honest‚ and “truthful”. Which was what the protagonist and main character Jack Worthing used to slip away from responsibilities he had to face. Oscar Wilde used the name earnest but the characters act completely different from it. It’s a pun on the word earnest‚ when the title is the importance of being earnest but they do the opposite
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The comedy of the Importance of Being Earnest uses spoken language to convey comical actions rather than physical actions. The Importance of Being Ernest is a drama because of its origins as a play‚ but also a contextual comedy as the characters follow the general format of falling in love with each other and ending with the idea of marriage. However‚ the play is also very satirical‚ making light of the aristocratic classes‚ exaggerating the upper-class morals and the frivolity of the characters
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Data Sheet: The Importance of being Earnest Title: The Importance of Being Earnest Author: Oscar Wilde Date of Publication: October 4‚ 2010 Pages: 106 ISBN Number: 9780415043687 Genre: Social Comedy Biographical Information about the Author: The famous writer‚ Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde‚ was born October 16‚ 1854 and died November 30‚ 1900‚ but not before many of his works were published and recognised by many. Oscars father‚ William Wilde‚ was a doctor who founded St. Marks Ophthalmic Hospital at his own expense to treat
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The theme for our exam project was Force. In the beginning‚ I wanted to look at force on the body‚ but my work developed through to looking at subjects posing for their portraits. Throughout the project‚ and in fact the entire course‚ my main subject matter has been people‚ particularly portraiture. Overall‚ I looked at 6 artists‚ all of whom were photographers. I think I did enough artist research‚ but it would have been best to diverge from the photographers and look at different media‚ such as
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In Oscar Wilde’s play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ the conversations between characters reveal a lot about their relationships and create a language. The relationship of Earnest and Gwendolen is primarily based on a surface characteristic; his name. Gwendolyn is only attracted to Earnest because of his name‚ because she is so consumed by what others will think. Cecily is portrayed as the wholesome girl in this play who is attracted to the devious and mysterious Algernon. However‚ their relationship
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The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde’s last and most famous play was introduced in London on the 14 February‚ 1895. Most of Oscar Wilde’s works of fiction have been made into films‚ some of them more than once. In 2002 Oscar Wilde’s play was dramatised into a modern equivalent‚ offering viewers a copy that differs on very few points from the original drama. This film was directed by Oliver Parker‚ who also wrote the screenplay. Notably‚ Algernon is portrayed as the older brother in the movie;
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" was written by the famous Irish author Oscar Wilde. The play represents Wilde´s late Victorian view of the aristocracy‚ marriage‚ wit and social life during the early 1900’s. His characters are typical Victorian snobs who are arrogant‚ overly proper‚ formal and concerned with money. The women are portrayed as sheltered‚ uneducated‚ and some as dominating figures over the men in their lives. There is no sense of identity for Cecily and Gwendolen‚ the only woman within
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