Oscar Wilde's comedy, "The Importance of Being Earnest," satirizes issues such as marriage, money, and death throughout the play.Wilde mocks the idea of marriage during the confrontations between Lady Bracknell and Jack. ... She believes that social status is of the utmost importance and that marrying someone without money is absurd. ... The comedy, "The Importance of Being Earnest," satirizes the statutes of Victorian society. ... Lady Bracknell believes that marriage should be based solely on money and that death is of no importance and people who are on their deathbed should choose wh...

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This attitude can be clearly seen in his play The Importance of Being Earnest'. ... As far as respectability is concerned in The Importance of Being Earnest' the people living during the Victorian age were extremely prudish. ... Much of British society struck Wilde as dry, stern, conservative, and so "earnestly" concerned with the maintenance of social norms and the status quo that it had become almost inhuman. 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 i...

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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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The Importance of Being Earnest is a famous play by Oscar Wilde. ... Although everything happens accidently the same as they plan in the end, they learn that it is always important to be earnest. The whole play is full of great humor, and Wilde tries to express the importance of being earnest through different ways in the play. ... It distinctively contrasts with their attitude before, and conveys that it is important to be earnest in marriage. ... In this way, Wilde intends to tell his audiences the importance of being earnest both in love and marriage....

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As far as "The importance of being Earnest" is concerned,the play satirizes the aristocracy of the time,the upper class.Who's life's are concerned with manners and customs.The characters lie to be rewarded with love and better social status but later they find out that they haven't been lying at all.Jack in saying that his name is Earnest,at the end of the story is found to be telling the truth as it is revealed to him and Algernon's lie of being Jack's brother is also found to be true,when they find Jack's real parents. Another conflict that occurs in the pla...

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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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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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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST The Importance Of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde is the type of book, which is very comical. ... She named a few then said "The Importance of Being Ernest", that rang a bell in my head. ...

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Lampito from Lysisstrata, Lady Bracknell from The importance of being Earnest, and Gary from I Hate Hamlet are all supporting characters and make the plays a little more interesting and humorous. ... In The Importance of being Earnest Lady Bracknell is trying to get Gwendolyn to marry someone from a high class family, and who wouldn't want to marry someone from a family with class and wealth and a good name? ...

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Expect the Unexpected Throughout Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest- various different literary devices are very effectively and skillfully used. ... But it is not that she is so against her Gwendolen being with Ernest, it is just that she wants him to have a parent, so she asks him to produce one. Quite the simple idea, but the logic is anything but correct, it is severely inverted, and plays a huge role in creating the comedy in "The Importance of Being Ernest-. ...

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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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The Importance of Being Earnest was written by Wilde in 1895 (Shuman). ... The Importance of Being Earnest is all about marriage. ... Dorian was warned of Lord Henry Wotton being a bad influence on him. ... In his play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack or Earnest is embarrassed of his double life. ... He portrays engagement as a quick one day deal in both The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Grey. ...

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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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This being said, they each went about satire in completely different ways. ... In Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," a lighthearted tone can be seen throughout the piece. ... They had completely different tones and completely different forms to their respective pieces, "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "A Modest Proposal....

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This year I have made an earnest effort to improve my work ethic. ... Armed with my new attitude and my understanding of the extreme importance of earning good grades to signal my capacity to work responsibly, I"m confident that I will never revert to the student I once was. ... Future success to me is being a successful businesswoman. I see myself as a wine representative of a large corporation being very successful. ... There is tremendous benefit in being well rounded, and I now understand that even my least favorite subject will contribute to my ultimate goal of living a rewarding life...

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An analysis of external and internal conflicts reveals the ultimate fate of king Duncan, and the expected roles of the genders in that era, the true identities of the main characters, and importance of being distinguished as a true man. ... These thoughts involve Duncan being removed from the throne through a violent act. ... If ill, / Why hath it given me earnest of success, / Commencing in a truth? ... The external conflict that occurs between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth involving the questioning of masculinity not only shows how manipulative Lady Macbeth can be or the importance of masculinit...

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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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This book will earnestly explain that this nation's history has been an exercise in dishonesty, upon all of its citizens. ... Women give higher importance to security and stability in marriage, while men place the emphasis on emotional satisfaction. ... The reason being that they may reap the benefits that the other cultures of this country have been reaping for years. ...

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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 their most vulnerable moments. ... This earnest attempt at assimilation causes them to rebel against their parents to the point where the Garcia Girls are torn between pleasing their family and pleasing society, and having to find out which is ultimately more imp...

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In the story, "A Lesson before Dying," by Earnest J. ... He tries to teach him the importance of God in everyone's life rather than mathematics and language arts. ... The lessons included understand life beyond education, being a man is not always about acting the toughest or strongest person, and the impact of an individual. ...

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The Scarlet Letter's scaffold holds more importance than just somewhere to condemn prisoners, and, for Dimmesdale, it is a place to find peace. ... Being on the scaffold puts oneself in a feeling of spiritual nakedness, where one feels exposed to God, but cleansed by it. ... What horrifies Arthur is not his feeling of guilt, but his inability to feel the guilt which he believes he ought to feel, " If, in all these past seven years,"I could recall one instant of peace or hope, I would yet endure for the sake of that earnest of Heaven's mercy'- (Hawthorne 184). ...

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Truth When society allows the manipulation of a sincerely earnest event, during a time when the people of this country long for relief; my inner being becomes greatly enraged. ... Kathleen Parker in, "Statue puts symbolism over truth", The Peoria Journal Star, Section A. 2, expresses her opinions on symbolism over truth; I support her opinions fully, based on my beliefs and values of truth always being put first. ... There is our symbolism and our truth; I find nothing in need of being politically corrected. The fact is, we are a diverse nation (Parker 2002), and being a nation of many ...

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"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy." - Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest" In "A Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allen Poe reveals the emptiness of revenge and the wreckage that results. ... Montresor enjoyed the empowerment of being able to dictate Fortunato's fate. ...

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