Analysis Of 'The Importance Of Being Earnest'

After reading the past novels in English class and doing multiple theories of analysis, I have decided the theory that I best relate with is reader response. The reason behind me choosing reader response is that throughout reading all the novels assigned I always tended to make a comparison to my modern day teenage life. As multiple of my previous analysis and explication videos have shown I tend to relate to the character struggling or the character that is in the pressure situation. Reader response is the theory that I relate to the most because of the past struggles that I have experienced and the struggles that I have seen close people in my life experience. While reading the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley I tended to relate to the monster throughout the novel. I compared the monster throughout the novel to a teenage boy that never really had his father in his life. The monster has the desire to meet the creator that formed him because like the teenage boy he never had gotten the acceptance of his father. “I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place; sometimes wishing to see …show more content…
The struggle in this novel is the name Earnest. This importance of this name is to attract people to you. The name Earnest at the time was a name that people felt was of good character. After the name Earnest is introduced to the novel by Jack “ Well, my name is Earnest and Jack in the country”(The Importance of being Earnest pg.5), the struggle continues for who gets to use the name. The struggle that ultimately this leads to is the revealing of the true names at the end of novel in which the struggle is keeping the women to stay with you after lying. The struggle throughout this novel was however not strong, but I feel the reader can relate to the struggle of wanting to be someone else to make life