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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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 narrative begins with the heroine asleep, being counseled by a sylph about the dangers (satirically statement) that she will confront that day. ... By ludicrously ov...

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These characters are of high social standing, as he stresses the importance of social hierarchy, and how it is affected by that which man calls "love." ... Marie terms adultery as being "foolishness, wickedness and debauchery," to take lovers wherever one goes, then boast of the sexual deeds. ... Guigemar is faithful to his lady, as is both symbolized and actualized in the lovers exchange, before being discovered by the lady's husband. ... He was considered to be a "lost cause by friend and stranger alike," despite being described as the best knight in the realm. ... The Lord i...

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• Grade Level: High School