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The importance of being Earnest is a satirical play by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde uses irony throughout The Importance of Being Earnest in order to expose the ridiculousness and ‘insanity’ of Victorian society. Moulton is a gardener who has worked for Mr. Worthing ever since he was little boy and is fed up with how everyone acts around him Wilde makes statements about the oppression of the classes through withholding education and how “education produces no effect whatsoever. [But] If it did, it would

The Importance of Being Earnest is a satirical play by Oscar Wilde that highlights the hypocrisy of the 19th century. During the Victorian Era beautiful advances were made in art and science were contrasted by the extremely divided class structure with obscene wealth reigning on one end while harsh poverty and squalor continued below. The ideal nature of the upper class was glorified, but Wilde utilizes literature to show the gluteny and repressed nature of these individuals to a degree nearing hyperbole

entertainment for many individuals. A particular satirical play that is still widely admired in literature today is The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The tone and word choice throughout The Importance of Being Earnest contribute to the unique humor of this work. Oscar Wilde uses many instances of mockery throughout the lines of The Importance of Being Earnest. The author ridicules various values that were influential in the Victorian age. For example, Algernon asks Lane in the First Act

The play, The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde, describes two main protagonists living in 1890's England, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff (Algy), who, for the sake of love, both use the same name (Ernest) to conceal their true identity. Algy has a cousin named Gwendolen Fairfax, whom Jack is in deep love with. On the other hand, Algy falls in love with Jack's ward, who is Cecily Cardew. At first, everything goes well, until both Jack and Algy end up together in the country

Louie Decena Jr. Professor Graham English 206 12 July 2015 Playing on the Disinclination of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest” In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde, satirically, opines the earnest concern within Victorian society of the 19th century. He plays with proper social norms of the upper class and openly criticizes the character archetypes of the period through a set of unbelievable coincidences, waggish deceptions, and fallacious identities. The Victorian

Jarryd Donald Mrs. Mclawhorn English Literature 12 7 February 2017 The Importance of Being Earnest Analysis In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde's irreverence towards the rules of the Victorian era, such as marriage, honesty, hypocrisy, and social class are heavily touched on through a satirical manner. Wilde portrays Jack and Algernon as advocates of the Victorian upper class who frequently participate in the art of “Bunburying” as a way to live another life without the

In Oscar Wilde’s dramatic novel “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Act II displays humor that contributes to the novel as a whole as being dramatic irony. The source of humor in Act II is the fake engagement of Cecily and Algernon. Wilde emphasizes the humor in Act II with the use of her fake letters between them, their break up and the irony of her desire to love someone named Ernest. Wilde contributes to the humorous novel in Act II by Cecily’s actions of creating fake love letters involving

As I understood, The Importance of Being Earnest is on the ethics of the British high society, and it utilizes comedic drama to do so. For instance, the use of comedy taunts the measures to which the high society holds themselves. The gentry had faith in orchestrated relational unions, unions between families to contain the riches among the few. Moms searched out courteous fellows of that particular high society quality for their sensitive little girls. Woman Bracknell solicits a number from questions

“The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde is a satirical playwright set in the late 1800’s during the Victorian era. With some elements of drama and comedy, Wilde illustrates an exaggerated, yet very accurate portrait of the Victorian upper class. He distinguishes the differences and the similarities of the privileged and the not-so-privileged with the help of some irony and a boat-load of puns. From the title alone, you can concur that things are not always what they seem and if something

One of Oscar Wilde’s most notable works, The Importance of Being Earnest, showcases Wilde’s bizarre and arguably backwards take on the literary device known as an aphorism. Most commonly, aphorisms are used in a didactic context and tend to reflect some form of ethical guideline or universal truth. It is easy to write off Wilde’s utilization of the device as ironic, as the aphorisms used in the play demonstrate values that are diametrically opposed to those we recognize in the real world; however