In The Importance of Being Earnest, the subject of each gender’s role in society repeatedly centers on authority. It is very interesting that throughout the Victorian period, men always had the authority over a woman, even when they are dead. Never do we see it as vice versa because that is not normal of a woman to have some power over her husband. In this type of circumstance, it is sad that we do not give credit to the wife in the family when she bears the children and does all the housework. It is not fair that she is only given part, not even half or the full amount of her husband’s fortune, when she has done half of the work as well. The wife in this particular situation is treated as a child, and not as a mother or wife. This is where
