Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is play which comically engages with socially prescribed roles and conventions. Set within late Victorian England‚ the play follows John (Jack) Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff‚ two gentlemen who create false identities in order to escape the burdens of upper-class life. Often subtitled as A Trivial Comedy for Serious People‚ the play is characterised by a constant sense of frivolity‚ whereby the seriousness of upper-class life is absent‚ allowing Wilde
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Importance of Being Earnest Analysis In true definition of farce‚ Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest incorporates unlikely and improbable situations‚ extravagant characters‚ and the occasional mistaken identity. Wilde’s farce relies on creating absurd situations that characters approach in means they find entirely logical in his parody of high society. His protagonist‚ Algernon is the only character aware of the absurdities of Victorian high society‚ and responds by taking absolutely nothing
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The decisions you and I make every single day do not just affect ourselves‚ we must remember that our actions can affect everybody around us. This statement holds most true when we speak of the importance of being on time. Military wise‚ tardiness is just plain unacceptable. As United States Army soldiers‚ we are held to a higher standard. There are many reasons why soldiers are to receive corrective action‚ if not UCMJ (Uniform Code Military Justice) action‚ for failure to be at ones place of duty
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The Importance of Being On Time At Your Place of Duty There are many important reasons that a soldier needs to be at his or her appointed place of duty on time. Being at your appointed place of duty on time is important because your leadership is held accountable for you and your absence. If you feel that you are going to be late you should contact your chain of command and let them know of your tardiness immediately. If you are not at your place of duty then you should expect your chain of command
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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 performed‚ Lady Croom has a similarly ‘sweeping’ and haughty manner to her voice which delivers the patterns of alliteration in the line perfectly. Her aspirates can be performed as plosives which make for a much more expressive deliverance of the line‚ as well as what we imagine being the steadily rising pitch in her voice. Undoubtedly this deliverance
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The Importance of Being Earnest “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a play written by Oscar Wilde in the late 1800s. The story takes place in late Victorian England‚ where two young gentlemen take on the same pseudonym “Earnest” in order to escape reality when needed and to satisfy their lovers. It is a humorous story about how the fake personalities clash with each other and cause complications. A central theme and topic in the play is love and marriage. It is a primary force motivation the plot
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The Importance of Being Ernest is Oscar Wilde’s last and most well-known play. Since it was first performed on 14 February 1895 in London‚ the play had been a huge success in Wilde’s career and it remains in the audience’s view. Wilde uses an easy and frivolous way to reflect the realities of the Victorian society through the play. This is why he calls the play A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. One of the main themes of The Importance of Being Ernest is marriage. As the play was written in Victorian
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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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Our concepts of class and wealth are usually coupled together—if a person is wealthy‚ we generally we generally view him/her as also being upper class‚ and vice-versa. This notion‚ however‚ is not present in The Importance of Being Earnest. In this play‚ wealth and class are rather different‚ yet they are so in ways that are not too surprising. If a character is wealthy‚ then they have a relatively large amount of money or land‚ whereas an upper class person simply acts a certain way. Algernon
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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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