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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• Approx Pages: 5

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...

• Word Count: 1815
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School