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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 ways

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    Dramatic Textual Analysis The Importance of being Earnest Act 3 Cecily and Gwendolen have just found out that Jack and Algernon had lied to them. They go into the house and make a vow not to be the first to take to them as they enter the house. Jack and Algernon enter the house and they end up begging for forgiveness. The women forgive them and the two couples fall into each other’s arm‚ then enters lady Bracknell. She is opposed to the idea of Gwendolen and Jack being engaged‚ but when she hears

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    Act 2: Upon the opening of Act 2 in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde sets out a rather peaceful looking scene‚ transporting his audience to Jack’s country estate in Hertfordshire. The act takes off in the Garden at the Manor House‚ described in the stage directions as ‘an old fashion one‚ full of roses’ with baskets and chairs set under a large yew tree. With the time of year being July‚ this all makes up for a somewhat simple Victorian summer setting‚ enabling the newly introduced

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    subtext add to the comedic value in The Importance of being Earnest ‘The Importance of being Earnest’ is an accomplished parody of the conventions of comedy‚ containing the main attributes of a comedy of manners. It is easy to view simply as a frivolous farce‚ laced with witty dialogue‚ contrived situations and sarcasm. However‚ upon closer look‚ Wilde uses his protagonists and the situations caused in the play to target many of the hypocrisies that Victorian society created. Exposing manners‚ false sincerity

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    The importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of manners‚ as it explores codes of upper and middle class society. For example‚"I don’t play accurately - any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression.". However‚ The Importance of Being Earnest has other types of comedy‚ such as‚ comedy of humours and farce. Comedy of humours focuses on a character of range of characters‚ who have an over riding trait or humour that dominates their personality. For example‚ Algernon’s greed. Farce

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    appropriate to consider The Importance of Being Earnest as a Satire on the hypocrisy of ‘polite’ British society? It can be argued that Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (2000) explores in depth the idea of satire on the hypocrisy of ‘polite’ British society. Wilde uses dramatic language to amplify the satirical nature of the play; by using irony and satire he is able to mock the polite Victorian etiquette. The play is set in middle class Victorian London‚ and was written

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    To be inducted into the National Honor Society is not a right‚ but a privilege. There are four important components that one must excel in in order to be inducted – scholarship‚ leadership‚ community service‚ and character. As I speak to you now about scholarship‚ I realize that I must first define what scholarship actually is. All of you today that are being inducted into the National Honor Society should consider yourself scholars. A scholar‚ by definition‚ is a distinguished academic or one who

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    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 in this play are also guilty of the manipulative

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    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 Ernest‚ to appropriate his bad behavior and ultimately obtain what his desires. Algernon is a reflection of the play’s author Oscar Wilde as he learns about the importance of truth while working through his society-shaped id

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    In today’s society people are being pushed‚ pulled and getting information shoved down their throats. Social classes and ranks are created and developed by society. The novels To Kill a Mockingbird‚ The Importance of Being Earnest and In the Shadow of Evil all portray vivid images of society classes. Classes create negative effects on people by putting inaccurate thoughts and judgemental ideas into innocent minds. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ society classes have negative effects

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