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    The Importance of Being Earnest Satire Essay “There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence.”(Act1part2/Act2part2‚Wilde) The drama The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde‚ is a satire on love‚ relationships and women. Wilde showcases two different types of women that hopelessly fall in love with “Earnest” the name‚ not the man. Gwendolen comes from a high society in which the look of honesty and integrity are highly sought after‚ which is exactly why she

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    The “Importance of Being Earnest” is a story of full of deceit and a twisted and tangled tale about love. The story is about a man‚ named Jack that forms a fake identity to escape the country life; his false persona is named Ernest. Jack tells his family about his “brother” named Ernest and often goes to “visit him” when he needs to get away. Now‚ Ernest is in fact not a real person but a made up one. When Jack goes to the city and pretends to be Ernest‚ he goes to meet the love of his life‚ Gwendolyn

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    APPRECIATE THE SOUND EFFECTS OF STOPPARD’S LANGUAGE IN ARCADIA BY ANALYSING THREE CHOICE PHRASES Jade Hope Tom Stoppard generates an aristocratic hauteur in the voice of Lady Croom‚ due to the indignation‚ imperiousness and intolerance of differing opinions of those around her. Her line ‘my hycacinth dell is become a haunt for hobgoblins’ can compared to the drippingly sarcastic famous words of Edith Evans in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ ‘A handbag?’. This allows us to imagine that when

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    and beauty within the world. Additionally‚ 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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    What comedic conventions does Wilde use in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’? ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is considered to be Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece written in 1895. His work here involves mistaken identity‚ satire (social/class rankings)‚ incredible wit and much more. It is theorised that this script was written in slight reflection of Wilde’s own life; he himself led a double life due to his sexuality. The incongruity theory is applied in this script throughout. At the beginning an

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    lifestyle. Oscar Wilde’s struggles‚ life circumstances‚ and societal views are reflected in his play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ and are still relevant today. Oscar Wilde became a lively and popular character in his adult life.

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    Hypocrisy of Being Earnest The Victorian era was a time of smugness and pomposity for the newly rich generation who quickly rose in class during and after the industrial revolution. Nothing was as it seemed in this day when earnestness was allegedly the most prized attribute a man could possess. In Oscar Wilde’s classical satire‚ “The Importance of Being Earnest‚” every character embodies the ideas and values of this “earnest” age. Oscar Wilde’s primary character in “The Importance of Being Earnest

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    Oscar Wilde wrote a play called “The Importance of Being Earnest” and it was first performed in 1895. The play is about the characters that have different identities and do not always tell the truth. Since‚ the play has been released there have been many film remakes of Oscar Wilde’s play. The one that I decided to compare it to was the 2002 version that was directed by Oliver Parker. Parker keeps the meaning‚ tone‚ structure‚ text‚ and theme the same compared to the play. Parker expands‚ energizes

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    “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Text and Film Comparison The most memorable and telling line of Oscar Wilde’s play "The Importance of Being Earnest" is perhaps its last‚ as Jack Worthing gleefully announces‚ "I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest" (Wilde 313). The "vital importance" of this line‚ and its significance‚ constitutes the core difference between the play and Oliver Parker’s film adaptation. As with any film adaptation‚ there are various

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    In comparing the views on society’s classes‚ in the novel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde‚ there is a connection to the classes in society in London England during the Victorian era. In the novel the character Lady Bracknell makes a comment about the classes‚ which included some fascinating points‚ such as; the meanings and origins of the aristocracy‚ the meanings and origins of the purple commerce and how those two interacted in London during the Victorian era. To start off‚ the

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