Marriage practices vary across cultures. Every culture has its own way of conducting marriage according to their traditions and customs. Most cultures share common customs and practices, while some cultures have unique practices. Marriage refers to a social union agreed upon by the couples to unit as spouses. The union of couples implies sexual relations, permanence in union, and procreation. This research paper focuses on comparing marriage practices in American and Indian culture. There is significant
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
The theme of marriage is magnified throughout Oscar Wilde’s captivating novel, The Importance of Being Earnest. By ridiculing the cultural norms of this time, Wilde scrutinizes and comments on the Victorian age as a whole. Wilde utilizes several characters in his play to point out the absurd ideologies of the Victorian upper class society. A prime example of this is Lady Bracknell, a character who wholeheartedly believes that people of London who are “upper class” should have power, while those
and The Importance of Being Earnest, as a means to convey his true feelings and beliefs and to criticize and satirize the shallowness and superficiality of the society in which he lived. Oscar Wilde condemns the suffocating and superficial standards of Victorian era society by displaying and denouncing the absurdity of social facades. In both his novel and play, Oscar Wilde presents Victorian era society in a satirical manner, attacking the importance of wealth as it pertains to marriage, and therefore
Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest epitomize the culture of gender, marriage, and social class in the 19th century. The stereotypes include the power and expectation differences between men and women, marriage for the purpose of gaining, and a strong class separation where the higher class looks down upon the lower classes. Society expected propriety of women in the way to act, dress, and present themselves. The goal: marry a good husband and hopefully move up a class from the marriage. A key for
check on the topics of love and marriage. After all, it seems to be more fun to believe in fairy tales” (Hornblow). There is a large number of Americans who would get married at least once in their lives, without thinking of the importance of a marriage and the possibilities that could happen based on quick decisions. The true meaning to what marriage is, issues involving marriage, which causes the divorce rate to rise in the United States, and the importance of marriage, to what is being done to increase
takes place in the 19th century, Austen portrays marriage and social class as two themes with an extreme importance. While tying together two similar points of views, Yen also incorporates Austen 's themes from her novel as well. Throughout the novel several elements are incorporated into the marriages that take place. One of the biggest elements incorporated into the thought of these marriages is social class. By providing examples of several marriages to prove that this novel isn’t your average romance
society. In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde uses satire to mock marriage, money, and death throughout the play. Wilde satirizes these issues, believing that the society should pay more attention to unimportant matters as opposed to issues that society regarded as important. Marriage, although it should be an engagement between two people who love each other, is regarded as a engagement between relations and money for many people. Wilde mocks marriage during the confrontation
love but simply to live in the moment. Some outcomes of these fake romances include unfaithful marriage and divorce. Similarly, In the Elizabethan Romantic Comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare uses the moon and the night to develop the importance of a faithful marriage as a true outcome of romantic love worth fighting for. Faithful marriages define the importance of love. A faithful marriage seals the deal in a relationship. In, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia and Lysander begin the
Satire in The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest is a short play written during the Victorian Era by Oscar Wilde. In his play, Wilde’s use of mockery and irony is meant to publicly ridicule the self-centered attitude of the Victorian upper classes, as well as, to expose their hypocrisy, lack of intelligence, and ridiculous social behaviors. Wilde mocks the Victorian structure of society in Britain and the procedures it followed by satirizing issues such as marriage, money, and