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society. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a satirical comedy that undercuts the British aristocracy of Late Victorian England. The novella Heart of Darkness calls into question British colonialism and imperialism. Both works of literature reveal human faults within the English aristocracy and imperialism. The novella Heart of Darkness criticizes imperialism and colonialism through the use of an evil tone and dark imagery, whereas the play The Importance of Being Earnest…

The book I read was The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written by Stephen Chbosky. In my personal opinion this novel has done an amazing job at getting it’s message across to it’s readers. When you get near the end of the book you begin to realize that throughout the novel the author writes important pieces of information to build up to it’s conclusion. I think it’s important that he did this because once you get to the end of the book you better understand all the situations that occurred. For…

Written by Moises Kaufman, the play “Gross Indecency” is a biography of the life of Oscar Wilde, that focuses on court trials where Wilde is accused of being homosexual. Kaufman spent two years writing the play and completed it in 1997. The production contains several roles, but a single actor can play multiple characters, as the case in Kaufman’s production. The play consists of twenty four characters, including eight narrators; however, this is not including parts entitled “others”. Most…

The play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde was one of Wilde’s bestselling plays. Oscar Wilde’s play is about a group of upper class friends named Algernon and Jack who imitate a made up character named “Earnest”. Throughout the play, not only does Wilde include many examples of irony, but he also criticizes the upper class. In The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde exposes the lack of responsibility in the upper class through the use of bunburying and petty arguments about…

“important” text discussed in this class to me is a piece that addresses “importance”, a now pressing issue on my mind, in a plethora of ways, essentially covering all of its bases whatever definition of “important” one may choose. The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Oscar Wilde, is undeniably, indisputably an important…

The not so good perks of sexual abuse In Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, a child named Charlie is struggling socially, and basically through life. Drugs, family, intimacy, and other factors interfere with his day to day life...he is basically the poster-boy for being awkward. Charlie is unable to be sexually intimate with sam because, unconsciously, he correlates his love for Aunt Helen with his love for Sam, and Charlie’s grief is mixed with unprocessed sexual trauma.…

When I found out we were going to be reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in class I was excited. For many years, I considered Perks to be my favorite book, and I had reread it during different stages in my life. Every time I reread the book I somehow always ended up feeling like I related to Charlie more and more. Rereading the book also brought back a lot of memories to me, the first time I read the book was in 7th grade and at the time I was a bit of a loner, I didn’t talk much and I…

Oscar Wilde employs satirical humor in order to set the tone of arrogance to discuss the disregards society is capable of in order to fit into social standards. These social standards are ridiculed through the use of sarcasm and exaggeration. By creating characters who are willingly refusing the obvious immoralities Oscar wilde expresses his opinion on the false illusion of marriage and the perfect family. The extends people will go through to fit into the accepted fixed image. By…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Charlie. The entire story is comprised of letters that Charlie writes to a friend, who is not named, but it can be presumed that the friend is the reader of the book. This type of writing allows the readers to get a first person perspective of how Charlie lives his life and what he is thinking. The story begins with Charlie attempting to cope with the loss of his friend Michael, who committed…

relatable issue that we all deal with. They have to make certain artistic decisions to help enhance and support the statement that they are trying to make to their audience. In Oliver Parker’s cinematic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the integrating of diverse camera work, editing, staging and close following of the original text give the cinematic viewer a much closer understanding of Parker’s purpose of adapting the original play to be one that represents the text…