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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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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As a result of reading Dr. Atul Gawande’s Being Immortal‚ I found myself contemplating old age and end of life care from a couple different angles‚ which I suppose was the goal of Gawande while writing his book. As it turns out‚ I knew very little about end of life care before reading this book‚ but now feel as though I have some guidance to at least begin thinking about what that should look like. Not only did this book encourage me to think about my own mortality‚ but also that of my loved ones
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The alienation of Tereza from her body In Milan Kundera’s‚ The Unbearable Lightness of Being‚ Tereza faces a conflict in which she feels alienated from her body. This result from a quantity of reasons such as her interactions with certain people‚ how she acts in these situations‚ and her inability to picture and create her own self-identity. Throughout the chapters‚ we see Tereza slowly decay from her moral roots and seek to find a different measure of pleasure that will give her happiness in
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Pg. 163 Discovering Your Authentic Leadership‚ HBR’s 10’ must reads‚ On leadership. By Bill George‚ Peter Sims‚ Andrew N. Mclean‚ and Diana Mayer“ People trust you when you are genuine and authentic. Being a replica of something or someone else is not being "authentic" or in other words "being yourself". Why is it so important to be yourself?”(George‚ Sims‚ Mclean‚ and Mayer 163) | “All of us have the spark of a leadership in us‚ whether it is in business‚ in government‚ or in the non-for-profit
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In his play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde portrays his beliefs by satirizing the beliefs and values of his society. Within Act I‚ Algernon states that “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Wilde’s witty epigram projects a major theme within the play. It attacks the perception of fixed truth. The major target of Wilde’s scathing social criticism is the hypocrisy that society creates. Often in Victorian society‚ its participants acted in overly sincere‚ polite ways while
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