Secrecy In The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde‚ secrecy holds a great significance in allowing Jack and Algernon to retain their double lives. These double lives are used by the two to achieve relationships with the women they desire. Early on‚ the character’s will to retain their double lives empowers the two to develop negative relationships with each other. Eventually however‚ Jack and Algernon realize that through telling the truth‚ true happiness can really be found. Early on in
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Higgins‚ a professor of phonetics‚ ultimately enters into a bet in which he is assigned the task of teaching a poor‚ uneducated yet determined girl from the streets proper grammar‚ with the hope of transforming her into a duchess in a few months time. It’s clear from the beginning that Higgins‚ a man full of contradictions and no filter‚ is the protagonist. At first‚ Higgins is clearly opposed to the idea of teaching Eliza; this is evident through his blatant insults and sarcastic taunts. He makes
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After learning about the Victorian Era‚ we watched the film/play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is a satire comedy where the main characters‚ John and Algernon‚ create fictitious people to escape from oppressive social obligations. Before watching the film‚ I had no clue what the play was about. I honestly had never really heard of the characteristics and social classes of the Victorian Era. After watching the play‚ I now have a better understanding
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Webster’s impacts are noted in mankind’s unrealistic characterization of moral code as completely evil or inherently good. No gray area or in between dwellings creates an inhumane rupture of the conscious leading to moral ineptitude in both The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and Madea by Seneca. The mental
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reversed. In her thesis‚ Meijers says‚ “Throughout the Victorian period‚ there was a strict separation between the public and the private sphere. Men were to handle public affairs and women were to take charge of domestic life” (Meijers 7). In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde employs a reversal of gender roles‚ including a shift in power that predates this movement‚ effectively challenging traditional Victorian views. He does so by giving his female cast‚ notably Lady Bracknell‚ Cecily Cardew
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Clever puns and witty dialectic. That is what you will encounter while reading Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest”. But what makes this play so great is not just the characters but the title itself. The title depicts the whole story and foreshadows the main characters’ journey of self-discovery. With a metaphor and some irony Wilde makes the best pun of all‚ the title itself. In the play‚ Ernest deceives Gwendolen‚ who is the love of his life‚ into thinking that he has a brother
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In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde‚ one can predict Algernon will go to Jack’s house and that Jack and Gwendolen will not get married. First‚ one can predict that Algernon will go to Jack’s place. At the beginning of the play‚ Algernon asked Jack questions about his house. Then‚ later in the play he writes down the address Jack gives Gwendolen. In the play it states‚ “Algernon‚ who has been carefully listening‚ smiles to himself‚ and writes the address on his shirtcuff. Then
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that on purpose or was that just a coincidence?” The question is following some discussion of circumstance‚ character‚ or wording. My response is always some version of‚ “There are no coincidences in [good] literature.” Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a fast-paced comedy of errors and chance that shows the transitioning gender roles of the Victorian era. The play provides numerous laughs thanks to Wilde’s wit and wordsmithing. Contemporary audiences probably saw the play as an
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The hypocrisy of Bracknells Lady Bracknell is a well-known and classic character from The Importance of Being Earnest‚ one the most prestigious plays of Oscar Wilde. In the play‚ she symbolises the British aristocracy during the Victorian Era‚ who is ridiculed and satirized by Wilde. However‚ another portrait of Lady Bracknell was created by Oliver Parker‚ a famous director who directed the remakes of the original play by Wilde‚ and played by Dame Judi Dench. The two versions of Lady Bracknell are
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It is very interesting how food and eating play a surprisingly large part in Oscar Wilde’s play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest. Both appear to express many different things such as‚ demands and emotions within the play’s characters. Moreover‚ food and eating also seem to be the sources of a great deal of conflict because every time food is mentioned some type of dispute between the character arises. Also‚ these expressions seem to not be very appropriate‚ respectable‚ or polite enough to communicate
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