AThe Importance of Being Earnest a play written by Oscar Wilde is set in England in the late Victorian era. Wilde uses obvious situational and dramatic irony within the play to satirize his time period. According to Roger Sale in Being Ernest the title has a double meaning to it and is certainly another example of satire used by Wilde. With a comedic approach, Wilde ridicules the absurdities of the character’s courtship rituals, their false faces, and their secrets. (Sale, 478) In the
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
“The Importance of being Earnest” by Oliver Wilde and “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare are two plays that have characters that deviate from their gender roles, particularly the females. During the times when both plays were written, men were expected to be the dominant figure in the relationship, the head of the household, while the female counterpart was expected to be demure and submissive. Both plays explore deviating from such social norms and use the concept of nature to show whether such actions
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
Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray throughout the existence in Victorian Society by exemplifying the truth and honesty the society doesn’t carry with them. The Victorian society does not engage in speaking of the truth and the involvement of staying honest between others. Due to trust running deep within these two terms, one must understand that the Victorian society had some trust issues between persons. As one has noticed within The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack and Algernon
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 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
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
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
“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