Title of Work: The Importance of Being Earnest Author: Oscar Wilde Date of Publication: 1895 Genre: Social satire/Drama/comedy in mannerisms Writing Style: Epigrams‚ puns‚ repetition Point of View: third person omniscient Setting/Atmosphere: London‚ England‚ ends in country side‚ Hertfordshire Plot Development: Act I: Jack visits Algy in city‚ he’s in love with Gwendolen (Algy’s cousin)‚ Algy brings up cigarette case‚ jack reveals his true identity ‚ tells who Cecily is‚ Algy like cesily just from
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-OF -OSCAR WILDE: Born on October 16‚ 1854 in Dublin‚ Irish writer Oscar Wilde is best known for the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ as well as for his infamous arrest and imprisonment for being gay. Early Life Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16‚ 1854 in Dublin‚ Ireland. His father‚ William Wilde‚ was an acclaimed doctor who was knighted for his work as medical advisor for the Irish censuses. William Wilde later founded
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These ordeals can very much alter one’s life and the perception of it. Author and playwright Oscar Wilde is no exception to this; with the many experiences that his own life holds‚ such as his double identity and homosexuality in the Victorian Era‚ Wilde is able to write his autobiography as a novel or play using characters similar to ones in his own life‚ as he has. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Algernon Moncrieff defies the Victorian upper class society by using his alter egos‚ Bunbury and
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My full name is Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde and I am applying for the spot as any of the following open spots as: Author‚ poet‚ or a dramatist. I was born in Dublin‚ Ireland on October 16‚ 1854. My father is Sir William Wilde who is a very well-known surgeon. My mother is Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde and she is a poet who worked under the nickname Speranza. I also have a lot of siblings. Five of them! Their names are Henry‚ Emily‚ William‚ Mary‚ and Isola. Due to my mother’s literary successes
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All the Wrong Reason to Marry The work that will be discussed in this essay is the "The Importance of Being Ernest" and it was written by Oscar Wilde. The topic of marriage in this play involves the manipulative desires and dishonest values of marriage. The female characters in this story including Cecily‚ Gwendolen‚ and Lady Bracknell are all guilty of scheming and controlling marriage. The desires and mentalities of these women are identical to the women of the Victorian Period. The men
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Dublin‚ Irish writer Oscar Wilde is best known for the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ as well as for his infamous arrest and imprisonment for being gay. Beginning in 1888‚ while he was still serving as editor of Lady’s World‚ Wilde entered a seven-year period of furious creativity‚ during which he produced nearly all of his great literary works. Around the same time that he was enjoying his greatest literary success‚ Wilde commenced an affair with a
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There are so many possible ways to create humor in written plays. A main practice that tends to seep through quite accurately to the audience has always been through satirical humor. Ridiculing people’s views and acts seem to make the largest impression on the audience. So many artists use satire to create a humor that is easily understood. Oscar Wilde is not any different oh his approach in The Importance of Being Earnest. In The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde uses many witty literary devices
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to give him a reprieve from his real life. Algernon is constantly being summoned to Bunbury’s deathbed‚ which conveniently draws him away from tiresome or distasteful social obligations. Like Jack’s fictional brother Ernest‚ Bunbury provides Algernon with a way of indulging himself while also suggesting great seriousness and sense of duty. However‚ a salient difference exists between Jack and Algernon. Jack does not admit to being a “Bunburyist‚” even after he’s been called on it‚ while Algernon
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Line 447-592 The Importance of Being Earnest was a satirical comedy written by Oscar Wilde with the express intention of highlighting the absurdity and‚ by modern standards‚ moral hypocrisy of the English upper classes in the late Victorian era. One of the ways in which this is done is through the characters perceived pragmatic approach to romance. In this essay I shall particularly focus on Lady Bracknell for I feel she is the most exaggerated manifestation of upper class values‚ and therefore provides
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Introduction The Importance of Being Earnest was Oscar’s fourth comedy‚ and it was to be his last and most outstanding play. ‘The Trivial Comedy for Serious People‘ (in earlier drafts‚ ‘serious comedy for trivial people’) was first produced by George Alexander at the St James’s Theatre on 14th February 1895 in London. The play was reduced from four to three acts (Raby 161-163). The Importance of Being Earnest contradicts banausic values in a utilitarian age (Varty 205). The comedy of manners and
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