Importance of Books Essay

of The Frog Prince put on by Missoula Children’s Theatre. Though I still knew virtually nothing about theatre, there was no doubt in my mind that I had to do it more. And that I did. I have chosen to write about Oscar Wilde’s famous play The Importance of Being Earnest. This play is near and dear to my heart because I was in a production of the show in 2014 at my community theatre, the Barrow-Civic…

Satire is a literary genre, categorised by the ridiculing of different faucets of society, as well as society as a whole. This ridicule is different to simple mockery, in that the core purpose of satire is to show the shortcomings of the subject through thinly-veiled metaphors and ironic humour. Satirical writing draws on sarcasm and wit to criticise it's subject in an intelligent and thought-provoking way. Jonathan Swift, author of 'Gulliver's Travels' is one of the best known and most widely…

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion is a satire that uses comedy to highlight the social issues of the day. It is also based on a Greek mythological lady statue of the same name. According to Blank Shaw’s Pygmalion is a story that is original witty and the characters have recognizable personalities. The plays plot begins when two phonetician make a bet to turn a street merchant; a flower girl into a lady who would pass as a ditches, teaching her how to speak, act and dress like a proper lady…

The Alter Ego of Jack Worthing “The Importance of Being Earnest (also called A Trivial Comedy for Serious People)” is a play written by Oscar Wilde in the late 1890's. Although it is comedy, it is also a social satire and it has some serious themes hidden in its lines. The themes here address Victorian social issues. In in the late 19th century, in the Victorian society, the life was not very easy. People were divided in social classes and there was a strict code of morals which people from…

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde has a unique title and tons of irony in the play. Throughout the play both Algernon and Jack impersonate someone named Earnest, but they are both ironically not earnest. Specifically how they act frivolously, irreverently, and manipulate others. The definition of earnest is “showing depth and sincerity of feeling.” Throughout the play, the way Algernon acts frivolously makes him not earnest. In the first act, Algernon knows that bringing Jack to…

Wilde’s Wild Rejection of Aristocratic Ideals Although there have been a countless number of people in history that defied the expectations society thrust upon them, only a small portion of them were viewed as celebrities. In Victorian London, playwright Oscar Wilde was a prominent social figure, and he was recognized as one of the most unorthodox people of his time. During this period, the upper class established a very rigid code of conduct concerning appearance and behavior to promote the…

Primarily, Wilde constructs the foil character of Lord Caversham as an “old gentlemen of seventy” (1.1A) who abides by Victorian English expectations to contrast Lord Goring’s repudiation towards aristocratic constraints as influenced by Aestheticism. When the audience is introduced to Lord Caversham in Act 1 Scene 1A, Wilde illustrates his aristocratic credence through his costume where he wears “the riband and star of the Garter” and is “A fine Whig type” “Rather like a portrait by Lawrence”…

Author of The Importance of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, utilizes dialogue, diction and irony to illustrate the play’s protagonist, Jack Worthing, who in turn illuminates the script’s theme that behavior deemed appropriate by society may conflict with moral decency. The dialogue from the interrogation of Jack by Lady Bracknell, his love’s mother, reveals that he is a character of high class and puts up a front in order to make a good impression in the face of others, as after the meeting, he…

comedic play, The Importance of Being Earnest, the secrets kept and maintained by Jack Worthing, his friend Algernon Moncrieff and his abandoner Miss Prism completely influence the plot. In the play we are opened to multiple different types of characters. Many of these characters are put into situations which reveals to the audience the true meaning of the play. Often in a play, the characters success usually comes with some secret keeping from other characters. In The Importance of Being…

one tried to act in a different manner than they usually act and thus portray that they are flipping their gender roles? In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde does such a task by portraying the character’s to represent something other than themselves. Furthermore, the author, Oscar Wilde is mocking and making fun of gender roles in The Importance of Being Earnest, by critiquing the period of the Victorian era and how these roles were portrayed during this time that the play…