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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13. How do Victorian attitudes to marriage and respectability underpin the comic elements of the importance of being Earnest? Plan: Jack and Algernons alter egos‚ Wilde and his social rebellion through his characters. Marriage is loveless‚ wealth and background takes priority over most things‚ Algernon supports this with a quote (once again hes the rebel) Marriage is the end of freedom‚ Cecily wants to break free‚ very curious woman who looks at society differently. takes a liking to
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principle‚ whether of art or morals‚ creates its own canons and conventions and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?’ Does the dramatic comedy in ‘Earnest’ seek only to amuse an audience or has the play more of a moral message than might‚ at first‚ be clear? The importance of being Earnest is a satirical comedy‚ which ridicules the social values of the Victorian Era. Despite the farce used within the play‚ the comedy is shown to have deeper meaning.
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright and writer known primarily for his comedies and satires. His play‚ “The Importance of Being Earnest‚” is one of his most famous satires about Victorian society. There are two different types of satire. Horatian satire is lighthearted and mocks human flaws‚ and Juvenalian satire which is bitter and negative and attacks an institution. In this piece Wilde uses Horatian satire to mock the values and morals of the upper-class in Victorian society. The first piece
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within the male sex. In the text so far Oscar Wilde shows Earnest/Jacks eagerness as a sign he could trying to assert his masculinity because that is what Victorian society is so judgemental. Prescribing the notion that women were born to dream of marriage‚ Cecily and Gwendolyn‚ from The Importance of Being Earnest‚ are caught up in the fantasies of the perfect marriage to the perfect earnest husband. Cecily and Gwendolyn are fixated on the name Earnest‚ almost as if it were an obsession; it is the
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Importancehe Importance of Being Earnest‚ A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London‚ it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London‚ the play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage‚ and the resulting satire of Victorian
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Without humor or comedy life can be extremely bland. It is because of humor that the audience is able to connect with the story which in return makes them more involved. When something is liked by an audience it makes them willinging want to continue to watch it and that is what playwrights want. He want people to enjoy their works. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde has impacted the writing styles of many playwrights. His use of humor in his plays especially‚ The Importance of Being Earnest has been widely
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In the opening scene of The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde creates a farcical and unrealistic world. Wilde creates a theoretical world during the conversation between Algernon and Lane; the audience would expect Lane to obey Algernon’s every command with ‘yes sir’. However‚ Wilde insinuates that Lane is comfortable around Algernon‚ the audience can also observe that the two men share an informal relationship. Although we can witness the informal side to their relationship‚ the audience
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more. With an actual backstory‚ readers probably would have known more about Miss Prism’s previous situation involving Jack. In the beginning of the act readers know how Cecily and Gwendolen just found out that Algernon and Jack lied to them‚ but readers don’t how betrayed they really feel. With The Importance of Being Earnest being only a play‚ readers only see the characters as they are now without seeing much depth in them. As a play there would be much more suspense‚ and audience members would
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Victorian Conventions in “The Importance of Being Earnest” In Victorian society‚ the conventional norms of status‚ gender roles‚ and marriage were closely linked by an institution that men and women were placed with unrealistic demands and expectations from society. Women were brought up by their parents to become the perfect housewife‚ and men were forced into marriages based on status within the society. In Oscar Wilde’s play‚ “The Importance of Being Earnest‚” he mocks the typical Victorian
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