The Importance of Being Earnest is a highly exaggerated play called a farce, which revolves around the plot of two available bachelors who find themselves in an unusually complicated "love knot." ... This is simply adding comedy to the play as we watch each character add something to the knot that is carefully being woven. ... The authentic, contemporary costumes and settings lure the audience into believing that their lives and their problems are being presented. ... Gwendelon is dressed very elegantly being from the city and living a prestigious life there. ... The Importance of Bein...

• Word Count: 1572
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5