Honesty is an important aspect of many agreements in everyday life. It is important in school, work and other aspects, like marriage. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the satire of an upper-class Victorian marriage can also be seen as a parody of the noble Victorian society as a whole. Wilde uses short dialogue to mock upper-class marriage in order to highlight and ridicule the flashbacks of society as a whole during this Victorian era.
Wilde’s clever mind comes up with the proposal in the conversation between Algernon and Jack in the beginning of the play. Algernon says to Jack, “I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing…There is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, …show more content…
On Cecily and Algernon’s engagement she says, “To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable” (pp. 308-309). Her speech, in a funny way, higHonesty is an important aspect of many agreements in everyday life. It is important in school, work and other aspects, like marriage. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the satire of an upper-class Victorian marriage can also be seen as a parody of the noble Victorian society as a whole. Wilde uses short dialogue to mock upper-class marriage in order to highlight and ridicule the flashbacks of society as a whole during this Victorian …show more content…
On Cecily and Algernon’s engagement she says, “To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable” (pp. 308-309). Her speech, in a funny way, highlights the importance of material things over the character of one’s spouse in the Victorian era. Wilde’s view on the morality of the upper-class in his time period and how they viewed marriage as financial security, rather than getting to know someone prior to marrying them. This example is a way of how Wilde shows us the flashbacks of the Victorian people in his time period. It started off with Jack wanting to marry Gwendolen, but she wanted to marry Ernest. She meets Ernest, she falls in love with him and then Jack kills of Ernest saying he died in Paris. Ernst comes home, but it’s really Algernon but Jack tries to make him leave but he won’t. Gwendolen and Cecily find out that he’s not Ernest. Lady Bracknell tries to get Algernon to marry Cecily, but Jack is her legal guardian and says she can’t marry until she’s 35. Jack finds out his real name is Ernest and everyone can get married and live a happy
Wilde’s clever mind comes up with the proposal in the conversation between Algernon and Jack in the beginning of the play. Algernon says to Jack, “I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing…There is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, …show more content…
On Cecily and Algernon’s engagement she says, “To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable” (pp. 308-309). Her speech, in a funny way, higHonesty is an important aspect of many agreements in everyday life. It is important in school, work and other aspects, like marriage. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the satire of an upper-class Victorian marriage can also be seen as a parody of the noble Victorian society as a whole. Wilde uses short dialogue to mock upper-class marriage in order to highlight and ridicule the flashbacks of society as a whole during this Victorian …show more content…
On Cecily and Algernon’s engagement she says, “To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable” (pp. 308-309). Her speech, in a funny way, highlights the importance of material things over the character of one’s spouse in the Victorian era. Wilde’s view on the morality of the upper-class in his time period and how they viewed marriage as financial security, rather than getting to know someone prior to marrying them. This example is a way of how Wilde shows us the flashbacks of the Victorian people in his time period. It started off with Jack wanting to marry Gwendolen, but she wanted to marry Ernest. She meets Ernest, she falls in love with him and then Jack kills of Ernest saying he died in Paris. Ernst comes home, but it’s really Algernon but Jack tries to make him leave but he won’t. Gwendolen and Cecily find out that he’s not Ernest. Lady Bracknell tries to get Algernon to marry Cecily, but Jack is her legal guardian and says she can’t marry until she’s 35. Jack finds out his real name is Ernest and everyone can get married and live a happy