Earnest

Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde the definition of earnest is explained deeply. The author explains that earnest is about honesty and being able to be truthful with the people you love. Earnest is about willing to sacrifice your liberties to extend a hand and offer help to the people you deeply care about. In the play we see this definition in the opposite way because the characters are not being truthful with one another. Starting with Jack because he made up the name Earnest to satisfy Gwendolen

The play, The Importance of Being Earnest, was written by Oscar Wilde in the late 1800’s. Wilde wrote the play as a means to satirize the Victorian model and social values. He points out the Victorian Period tendency to value an individual’s status and superficiality over there true personality and nature. In Act II, during Algernon and Cecily’s dialogue, Wilde creates humor by poking fun at their relationship. He achieves this by using ridiculous-diction, “double life” and irony. In the beginning

In one of Oscar Wilde’s most enduring play, The Importance of Being Earnest, it displays very noticeable pun, referring to the word “earnest” honest and loyal. Filled with parodies of the Victorian society, in where the play shows how deceptive the characters really are. Jack Worthing, who fakes his identity with a fictitious character, Earnest, uses to escape his responsibilities. While Algernon using the same alternative of escape from reality, “Bunbury”,an invalid friend that will provide him

Jaci B. Gray Professor James Reed English 1302.2532 March 26, 2017 The Importance of Value In the drama “The Importance of Being Earnest,” by Oscar Wilde, Lady Bracknell is right to say that “We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces” (Wilde 1604). This play emphasizes that the Victorian era did not value sympathy for the underprivileged, responsibility, or even true honesty. Only wealthiness, class status, and style were what the Victorians’ cared about. An example of this would be when neither

play, Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, humor is expressed in many ways. Dramatic irony and satire are the most common sources of humor and he makes it very noticeable. Dramatic irony is when the reader understands the situation but the characters in the story haven’t noticed what is really going on. In one of the scenes of the play, Algernon and Cecily are having a conversation, he asks her that if he would mind being with someone that was not named Earnest and had a different name,

A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Oscar Wilde mocked his audience while he entertained them. Perhaps his most loved and well-known work, The Importance of Being Earnest, satirises the manners and affections of the upper-class Victorian society. Satire is a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, usually with the intent of changing or correcting the subject of the satirical attack. The play focuses on the elite, while making fun of the ludicrousness and extremity

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, “And

Importance of Being Earnest brings to light the stereotypical upper class societal mindset commonly found in the late nineteenth century. By poking fun at the ridiculously wealthy and reputable, Wilde created a play filled with strikingly exaggerated irony and satire. Wilde’s finished product not only displayed a parody of upper class behavior, but also the foolishness of adolescent love and obsessions over one’s reputation. Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest exemplifies comical ideals

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

beliefs. Like many satirical plays, The Importance of Being Earnest is deliberately preposterous in nature so as to better ridicule Edwardian social life and cherished ideals. The Importance of Being Earnest is a stinging indictment of upper class British society of the time. The ingenious play mocks the concepts of aristocracy and love in Edwardian society, and addresses the notion of treating all important matters of life with genuine and earnest triviality. Much of the subtle and