Being A Teenager Essay

In the importance of being earnest, Wilde suggests that marriage in the Victorian era was not worth it because it was only for family alliances. After jack proposes to Gwendolen because she told him to, Lady Bracknell comes into the room and interrupts saying that she is not engaged to him and that she will be told by her or Gwendolen's father when she will be engaged to someone. Lady Bracknell says she will interview Jack to put him on the list of eligible men for Gwendolen. As she interviews…

The Importance of Being Earnest: Written vs. Performed play. The Importance of Being Earnest , written by Oscar Wilde in 1895, is a romantic comedy play written about the happenstance, coincidence, and revelation that occurs one London season between two friends, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, and their paramours Gwendolyn Bracknell and Cecily Cardew respectively. Minor characters include Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen’s mother and aunt to Algernon; Lane, Algernon’s butler; Miss Prism,…

The Reactionary Life The protagonist, Charlie from the novel Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky along with myself demonstrate the idea of how it is not about what life throws in our way, but rather how we react to what life throws that can truly define us as a person. Within the novel, we see Charlie dealing with a multitude of stressful and traumatic events. For example, when his best friend Michael committed suicide and when his favourite aunt Helen died in a car accident, it was…

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”(Act I). The film, The Importance of Being Earnest, is an enjoyable and comical interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s, The Importance of Being Earnest. This phenomenal film stars Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and many more talented actors and actresses. In the film, Colin Firth play John Worthing, a responsible and respectable young man.…

a sinful and unnatural practice to be condemned by the law. Wilde himself was arrested on charges of “gross indecency” after his affair with a young man came to light (Biography). With this knowledge, The Importance of Being Earnest takes on an entirely new meaning aside from being a mere farce. The play revolves around the idea of identity, and the process of coming to terms with that identity. Two men who adopt the persona of “Ernest” both lie about…

Student name Professor Course Date The Importance of Being Earnest: Honesty vs. Lies “The Importance of Being Ernest” by Oscar Wilde was first played in 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London. The major theme that the play revolves around is trivial notions that critical institutions like marriages are being shown. In other words, it was a satire of the Victorian ways. The play is a farcical comedy, and the protagonists of the play employ made-up personalities to escape their lives. The lies…

Oscar Wilde is well known for the satire involved within his plays. The Importance of Being Earnest is not an exception to this. Wilde created a brilliant comedy that mocked different aspects of the Victorian lifestyle and unrealistic ideals. Part of the brilliance within this satirical piece is that Wilde mocked the very people that constructed his audience. While the play may be mocking of its own audience, it also draws them in by creating a relatable unrealistic world. In order to…

She represents women of the Victorian upper class society and believes that those of high class should be the ones in power. She has very little opinion of those with no title, or money and views the upper class society as being a `closed club.' In other words, most people don't deserve to be in it unless they were born into it. She appears as a guardian of society in that she forcefully dictates who should marry who in the play. In the first scene, Gwendolen is unable to…

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…

dramatists in England, and especially to Congreve and Wycherley; but it is a type of comedy which can flourish in any civilized urban society, and we see it again in Sheridan (1751-1816). This kind of comedy makes fun not so much of individual human beings and their humors as of social groups and their fashionable manners. It is general satirical, though in a good-natured way. The comedy of manners is a highly artificial form of drama and is generally full of verbal wit. So, like…