The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, is a comedic play that is set in the Victorian Age at around the 1890s. ... The Importance of Being Earnest has many major characters. ... One major theme in The Importance of Being Earnest is the use of satire. ... Another theme in this play is the use of epigrams. ... The Importance of Being Earnest is still fun to read though and I believe people will enjoy it. ...

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In The Importance of Being Earnest, John Worthing adopts the name Ernest to win beautiful Gwendolen's love. ... The Importance of Being Earnest is a play of nonsense, and childish playfulness, and demands not to be taken seriously. ... It is this fact that makes The Importance of Being Earnest such a great text: it rejected all the mundane conventions of its day. ... In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde explores the themes of love, social classes and truth. ... A major theme of The Importance of Being Earnest is John Worthing's search for his own identity. ...

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This attitude can be clearly seen in his play The Importance of Being Earnest'. In this piece of work, some of the important themes discussed are that of marriage and respectability. ... As far as respectability is concerned in The Importance of Being Earnest' the people living during the Victorian age were extremely prudish. ... In the figure of Lady Bracknell in particular, The Importance of Being Earnest' lightly shows the limitations and unhappiness produced by such a way of life. ... All in all, The Importance of Being Earnest' has many goals. ...

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"The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, is a comedic play that is set in London, England during Victorian times. ... The Importance of Being Earnest has many major characters. ... One major theme in The Importance of Being Earnest is the use of satire. ... The Importance of Being Earnest is still fun to read though and I believe people will enjoy it. Bottom of Form 0 Algy In Oscar Wilde's classic play, "The Importance of Being Earnest", the reader is introduced to an importantly funny man by the name of Algernon. ...

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Perhaps the single reason that Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest has endured as one of the greatest and most popular works of literature to emerge from Victorian England is its brilliant wit, which conveys both humor and social satire. ... The Importance of Being Earnest, like so many of his works, focused on the elite, and while making fun of their absurdities and excesses, it also reveled in their witty banter and rambunctious lives. ... Yet even as he played with his theme for laughs, Wilde saw earnestness as being a key ideal in Victorian culture. ... In the figure of Lady...

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Irony: As Portrayed Through The Importance of Being Earnest There are very few true comedies that have not mastered the art of irony. Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest may be the biggest example of a comedy that has mastered irony. ... The characters in The Importance of Being Earnest truly define irony, and the irony in this play truly defines the characters. ... The Importance of Being Earnest has many goals. ... Its themes, irony, and humor stay true even to today. ...

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The great play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, can be described as a timeless play because many of its context can be related to today's world. ... The three main themes associated with this play are selfishness, marriage, and society. ... One of the holiest acts two people can be involved in is being married. ... The next theme that people can associate with today's world is the acts and reputation of society. ... Overall, The Importance of Being Earnest can be tied to today's life in more then one way. ...

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In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde did not disappoint. In this comedy and satirical drama of manners, "The Importance of Being Earnest," makes fun of everything the Victorian society seems to consider sacred and essential for life. ... Throughout the play, there are countless areas of criticism Oscar Wilde brings to light that exist in the society; however, one may maintain that The Importance of Being Earnest is a piece that intends to criticize and raise awareness essentially in themes such as ethical standards, family issues, religion, education, social expectations, and marriage. .....

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The Importance of Being Earnest (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) Oscar Wilde said "We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality." This essay investigates how far "The Importance of Being Earnest" reflects this view on life. ... Earnest of the title is an adjective describing seriousness. Jack and Algernon are characters who lie in order to be Ernest, but in doing so they are not being earnest. ... Cecily sums up the main theme in the play when she says to Algernon: "I hope that you have not been leadi...

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Wilde's genre of choice for The Importance of Being Earnest is the Victorian melodrama, or "sentimental comedy," derived from the French variety of "well-made play". ... In The Importance of Being Earnest, however, this is not always the case, as gender role reversal is a common theme throughout the play, which naturally leads to comedy, as during the Victorian Era in the Aristocratic part of society, gender roles were very firmly set, so when this is reversed an audience would find it funny as it is completely out of social norms. The characters who are used to imple...

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Wilde is best known for his comedy The Importance of Being Earnest that was written in 1895. ... Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Ibsen's A Doll's House display similar characterization and themes of dual identity and mask's of manners. ... A position of strength is one way to characterize the Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. ... The themes and characterization I illustrate are some of the predominate parts in both novels. The themes of mask of mannerisms and dual identities help to exploit the plot and suspense in the both novels. ...

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In The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde uses irony, puns, and humor to show the readers of the follies and social incapability of the acceptance of others different from themselves. ... The plays and mostly revolves around this theme of deception to oneself and to others. ... With this, The Importance of Being Earnest makes a wavering claim stating that maybe just maybe Jack, Gwendolyn, Algernon, and Cecily have been the earnest ones all along. ... The cucumber sandwiches also become a theme for the self-indulgence of the rich. ... Overall, The Importance of Being Earnest has man...

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This is what aesthetic authors such as Oscar Wilde try to portray in their non conventional works packed with comedy and tragedy such as and The Importance and Being Earnest. ... Wilde attempts to express art, comedy, and tragedy in both "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and the Importance of Being Earnest. ... He shows this in his world renowned play The Importance of Being Earnest when the two mischievous main characters, John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, speak absolutely irrelevant lines in what seems like a random brain lapse. ... In conclusion, the aesthetics era and its themes, tones, ...

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Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest are plays of society life set in the rarefied world of the upper classes. ... The Importance of Being Earnest, focused on the elite, making fun of their absurdities and excesses, whilst revelling in their witty banter and rambunctious lives. ... Issues that Wilde appears, possibly, to be satirising in the Importance of Being Earnest. ... Overall, The Importance of Being Earnest and The School for Scandal have many goals. ... Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest, ed. ...

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He is to be earnest and faithful, overflowing in his love for living beings and intimate with those who are humane" This idealistic view embraces the moral ideologies that Confucius sought after. ... Being able to recognize oneself in others, one is on the way to become humane" . ... Confucius described the five characteristics to becoming humane as respect, liberality, trustworthiness, earnestness and kindness. ... Although government resides somewhat separate from kingship, they both contain common moral themes that are customary to Confucius. ... The king must place the importance upon...

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He is to be earnest and faithful, overflowing in his love for living beings and intimate with those who are humane" (45). ... Being able to recognize oneself in others, one is on the way to become humane" ( 50). ... Confucius described the five characteristics to becoming humane as respect, liberality, trustworthiness, earnestness and kindness. ... Although government resides somewhat separate from kingship, they both contain common moral themes that are customary to Confucius. ... The king must place the importance upon the upright, and put them over the crooked. ...

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Earnest Hemingway was a very well-known and highly praised American author who greatly influenced fiction literature in the twentieth century. ... Another way that he achieved this strategy was being very particular and wise about word choice. ... This proves that Hemingway paid great attention to syntax and did not use a lot of adjectives or unnecessary description to take away from the importance of what he wrote. ... Lastly, Hemingway was much known for the technique he used to convey theme and purpose called the iceberg principle, which is when he added depth to his stories by hiding deepe...

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Floor Show In Julia Alvarez's novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the section entitled Floor Show, fits thematically with the rest of the novel in the theme of assimilation and how it manifests itself in terms of rebellion and conformity. ... They are being forced to act in such a way that will appeal to American society, not the Dominican way of life in which they were raised. ... The girls, as young as they may seem, realize the importance these people hold in relation to their parents, and they seize the opportunity to take advantage of their parents while they are in ...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEEN EARNEST The play was writen by Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900), who was an Irish author. Wilde studied the classics at Trinity College, Dublin, with distinction (from 1871 to 1874), and at the Magdalen College in Oxford, (1874-1878).He wrote "The importance of being Earnest- in 1985. "The importance of being Earnest- can be regraded as a comedy although it has more serious and dramatics themes. ... After talking one by one about the characters on "The importance of being Earnest-, I think it's the mome...

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The importance of peace was a recurring theme in Aristophanic comedy; it is mentioned in Acharnians (425BC) and Peace (421BC), although they advised harmony throughout Greece in addition to peace in Athens. ... There is the implication that these flawed leaders are preferable to the present politicians, such as Cleophon and Cleigenes who are taunted with accusations of dishonesty - "he makes up detergents that won't even lather / For he mixes in ashes to make them go farther" and, more damningly, not being of pure Athenian birth - "when once translated from the Thracian". ... In this way,...

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Pope here is showing the lack of differentially of importance amongst possessions, a loss is a loss, whether it be a lifelong partner or a furry friend. ... Thus pope's mock epic resembles a true epic in that central themes are serious and often moral, but the fact that approach must now be satirical opposed to earnest, which shows how far culture has fallen. ... Within the beginning of Canto two the language reflects a theme of entrapping-"detains, insnare, prey and slaves"-it is clear that the "fashionable absurdities" were not just restricted to the elite few but the whole of the fe...

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He received the Berkeley gold medal for being the top student in Greek. ... For example, in "The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar focuses on critiquing the myth of love and bond. ... This is quite unusual being that "The Picture of Dorian Gray" centers on the love between a young man and woman). His most common theme is that of Aestheticism. ... This theme began its roots at Oxford and stemmed from the conflict between Pater and Ruskin. ...

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Pope is asking the reader to laugh, to see how an event of little significance has been filled with importance. Though its manner may be light, its purpose is completely earnest; it keeps the public conscience mindful, it exhibits absurdity for what it is, and makes those prone to embrace senseless or garish customs conscious that they are ludicrous. ... This expresses the importance of beauty- it helps classify people. ... The second theme in Pope's mock epic is seen through a parody of the structure and language of the classical narratives that had served since the Middle Ages as the...

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Lee's explanation of the word timshel brings forth a very important theme: free will. ... Fate is another common theme of the three novels. ... Being a teenager myself, I feel that I have benefited significantly from the values and morals of these books. ... Through the plots and characters of their novels, Steinbeck, Melville, and Gaarder are able to emphasize the importance of philosophy. ... The deceptiveness of fate is another theme from East of Eden, Moby Dick, and Sophie's World. ...

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