The Importance Of Being Ernest

Some people see life as a escapade, other people see it as something they just hope to get through. During the Victorian era was an utmost period of social prejudice, industrialisation that brought fast changes into everyday life that affected social classes. Life during this period depended on your social class and where you lived. Life was so controlled during this era that people were custme to this norm that majority of the people did not question their norms, except there were people who did or wanted to break these norms. But afraid that they will get in trouble with society who was against the idea of changing traditional aspects of their lives. In Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest,” brings up the society were inequality …show more content…
In the Victorian era there were three different class structure, based off of how wealthy the person was. They were high class, middle class and lower class. High class meant that you were very wealthy. Middle class is the social upper and working class, and the lower class are a working class, but don’t make enough money. Lower class were looked down upon because they weren’t good enough and wealthy enough to be members with the upper class. It may seem that the lower class are considered envious of the high class, but that is not the case, in Wilde’s playwright, the lower class are less pompous and more unpretentious. The upper class men members are so engrossed with their society that anything that comes with a change will destroy it before they could let change happen. Algernon seems to dislike this on how the system of high class functions, in the comment, “ ...I love hearing my relations abuse. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.” (Wilde,14) Algernon states that having some sort of family relationship is the only thing stopping him from inhertings all his father’s fortune. Algernon believes that the lower class should be a righteous example for the high class, “ Lane’s views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.” ( Wilde, 3) The high class seem to be corrupt from what Algernon comment meant and has no problem with not denying