Liminal being

The book I’ve been reading is called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. For those who haven’t read the book, basically it's about a boy named Charlie who is 15 years old and he’s starting his freshman year of highschool. The book is a bunch of letters written to an anonymous person who never writes back, so it’s kind of like a diary recording everything throughout the year and he goes through a lot. His issues, his friends issues, his family's issues while he’s still trying to…

The Importance of Being Earnest an Oscar Wild Playwright, and Tootsie by screenwriter Larry Gilbert have many similarities and differences. Even though the stories are set in 100's of years apart, they are alike in ways you would expect they would be different. The Importance of Being Earnest set in the 1890's, and Tootsie set in the 1980's. These comedies are set in different times but you can see similarities and differences in their themes, characters, and their treatment of love and women.…

quote, “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it,” stated by Oscar Wilde constructs interesting assumptions about his drama, “The Importance of Being Earnest” and Wilde himself. Because he was in touch with his feminine side, he was accused of being homosexual during the late 1800s which led the case being the “trail of the century” which condemned him to two years of hard labor. This play was published during the Victorian era, an era where homosexuality and marriage…

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was his ultimate breakthrough. Wilde’s novel targets the way of life of the elite during the Victorian era through satire. Oscar Wilde’s satiric novel The Importance of Being Earnest ridicules the aristocratic society of the Victorian which can be observed in his use of irony, humor and metaphors throughout the novel. Wilde uses irony in emphasizing satire and sarcasm in his novel. An example is his use of puns throughout his play. One obvious…

Group 1, Question A Aristocrats of the Victorian era aimed at being perceived as extremely moral and proper; however, in the reality, the fact of being seen as moral by other members of society overshadowed being moral itself. Oscar Wilde in his “Importance of Being Ernest” satirizes the intent of people to be loved and admired for what they are not, “You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life” (Wilde 6). For Cecily and Gwendolen it is…

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.…

The movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, depicts the main character, Charlie, as having one of the main mental disorders known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. The film itself was released in October of 2012 and was directed by Stephen Chbosky. I chose this movie to complete my report on because, as I watched the film and observed how Charlie was bullied by his peers and was unappreciated by his family because he was different, it tremendously pulled at my heartstrings. As a young…