something Lady Bracknell heavily values and supports. Her views are evidently different from Gwendolyn’s‚ who believes one should be able to marry purely based on love‚ rather than which category of class the man falls into. Furthermore‚ in relation to Victorian ideals‚ Gwendolyn also fits into this category as she cares less about a man’s personality‚ and would rather marry this man as long as his name is Earnest. It is the ideal she desires and will firmly stay true to her expectations of her potential
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Oscar Wilde lived and wr¬¬ote during the late Victorian period‚ where the idea of living life earnestly was the most ideal. The Victorian era is a time viewed by strict moral values. The play’s humor takes part with characters maintaining a false identity to break away from the social obligations. Being truthful‚ sincere‚ or serious could be the idea of earnestness. It will also reveal the true definition of honesty versus the Victorian definition of honesty. The comedy of this play shows several
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06 March 2013 Victorian Era In a Victorian marriage‚ a husband dominates his wife. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” Louise Mallard contemplates the significance of the news that her husband had been killed in a train wreck. Chopin creates Louise in order to protest how wife was oppressed in marriage and her works suggest that Louise was oppressed psychologically‚ politically and economically. In the patriarchal world of the nineteenth century women were oppressed psychologically
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Gwendolen and Cecily in Victorian age and today The Victorian age is considered to be one of the most prudent ages throughout of history. It is mainly based on your appearance. This means that the most important thing back then was to present as much as perfect as you can. It is crucial for them to be very appreciated by other people. This age can be described as very hypocrite because no one is perfect so lying and pretending in order to present as a “saint” is absurd but in that age it meant
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An ideal husband Theme Essay Out of all the various themes that this outstanding play has touched upon or rather explored throughout the Victorian era‚ the one I found to be most prominent was the religiously occurring theme of the Feminine. Womanliness in the Victorian era was sure a rare occurrence to experience but Wilde definitely used this theme to underline the helplessness of a woman of the time. How Wilde began to explain or rather express his views on womanliness is by comparing mainly
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Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest provides a satirical view of the Victorian era‚ primarily focusing on Victorian standards of marriage and social expectations. Wilde builds his critique of Victorian morality through his humor and wit between the character’s banter‚ the hypocritical Victorian view of honesty. Wilde view of Victorian society is illustrated through his wit and humor embedded in the characters’ dialogues. For example‚ Jack and Algernon live double lives as lowlifes
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Nora‚ a complex character from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House‚ changes throughout the play as the audience watches her develop into a very different woman‚ untypical of the Victorian era. As a house wife‚ she is expected to obey and respect her husband‚ however she misbehaves during the first act‚ behaves desperately in the second‚ and abandons her husband for her own sake in the final act. At the beginning of the play‚ Nora seems completely at ease and demonstrates many childlike aspects. Her relationship
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Importance of Being Earnest: A tale of Victorian mockery "Every word and every part of an individual was expected to be in accordance with the rigid moral and behavior rules‚ and each‚ even the slightest deviation from the rule was considered an offence which made the delinquent publicly disgraced. Even literature and art had its cannons which were to be respected" (Mathews‚ 2009). In Oscar Wilde ’s satirical comedy‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Victorian hypocrisy is presented within the lines
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There is nothing earnest about this play‚ at least on the surface. It’s a giant critism of the Victorian era‚ when middle class behavior governed everything from communication to sexuality. The most important rules applied to marriage and were always a popular topic in Victorian plays‚ and one that interested Wilde‚ who was married to a woman but sexually involved with men. During the Victorian period‚ marriage was about protecting your resources‚ and keeping socially unacceptable impulses
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Poetry Question: “His work reveals that he is unmistakably a product of his age and time.” Discuss this view of Hardy’s poetry with reference to any 3 poems. A writer’s work is a ‘nurtured reflective’ of his society. This was no different for Victorian Britain. Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria underwent evolutionary changes that did not only change the lifestyle of a people but the culture of the people. With Britain gaining mass economical wealth through the colonization of other territories
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