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. ... In the figure of Lady Bracknell in particular, The Importance of Being Earnest lightly shows the limitations and unhappiness produced by su...

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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. Algernon, a free speaker, makes his opening appearance by asking his servant, Lane, if she had heard him playing the piano and after hearing her r...

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In The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, and "The Rape of the Lock", they are all told from different prospectives and social classes, but in contrast all share the same views--marriage to a man of great wealth and well established standing would raise a woman's social ranking in society. ... In The Importance of Being Earnest, initially, Lady Bracknell is in control over Jack/Earnest and Gwendolen's relationship. ... Gwendolen says, "Earnest, we may never be married. ... Unlike The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice is the opposite courting techniqu...

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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. ... I believe Wilde like to touch upon the topic of being someone else. ... 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. One might think this due to their unwillingness to act earnestly according to social status and not being stereotypically conventional, and is not from tell...

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In the Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde shows a surprisingly late 20th century view of marriage. ... This is where Earnest comes in. ... Another view that Oscar Wilde takes in The Importance of Being Earnest is that the trappings or practices surrounding marriage were silly. ... Still another view of marriage customs of the time being ridiculous was the class limits on who someone can marry. ... The two lead women in Earnest, like the marriages, are very atypical. ...

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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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Learning of Don Pedro's plans, Don John resolves to sew seeds of discord between Claudio and Don Pedro, encouraging the younger man in believe that he is being betrayed by his mentor, that Don Pedro wants Hero for himself. ... Dogberry is a comical figure, a clown who is inept, harbors an over-inflated estimation of his own importance, and, above all, is given to the use of long words that he confuses, mispronounces, or otherwise butchers. ... ACT 4 Scene i: On the verge of the wedding ceremony, Claudio and Don Pedro suddenly accuse Hero of being unfaithful before the entire con...

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