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“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would-be hypocrisy.” (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Jamie Lessells Life in the 21st century has moved on from past events and stereotypes, and celebrities have never been more in the spotlight. Despite all this change, some ideas, attitudes and values constructed in The Importance of Being Earnest are still relevant in society today. Themes such as marriage and living double…

In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the characters often engage in quick, witty remarks towards one another. Yet beneath their comic front, these characters’ words subtly challenge the reality we think we live in, demanding the we see beyond what we have come to accept. When Lady Bracknell asks Algernon how he has been behaving and Algernon replies he has been feeling well, Lady Bracknell remarks, “that’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together” creating…

is incapable of forming relationships and being interactive with others. Throughout the book, he has to overcome many obstacles and attempts to find his place in the world. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult novel, told in the form of letters, that Charlie has written to the reader. It is coming of-age story in which the reader’s eyes are opened to the world of growing up, and the problems that go along with it. In the novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie's interactions…

interactions between his friends and his mental instabilities. As critics say, “Overall, by keeping all of the important moments in Charlie’s timeline and showing us more about our favorite side characters onscreen, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wildflower is a wildly successful film, capturing the ache and grandeur of growing up in the suburbs in the early nineties perfectly” (www.cinemablend.com). Watching the film is a key aspect of fully understanding and interpreting what is…

In Oscar Wild’s written work, “The Importance of Being Ernest”, he employs humor through the use of flirty diction and satiric actions of certain characters. He does so in order to achieve his purpose of showing the lifestyle of the high class people during the Victorian era. Act 2, opening scene, Algernon and Cecily are saying their goodbyes. Algernon tries to have a few more moments with Cecily before he has to leave, he tries to show his true feelings, mentioning her, “..absolute perfection..…

Directed by Stephen Chbrosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a phenominal movie set in the 90's era that accurately shows a realisic coming of age story and how it feels growing up as a teenager in high school in society. This film shows the perspective of central character, Charlie and his ups and downs in the beginning of high school in a fascinating, exciting and somewhat amusing way. In my opinion, an important and reoccuring theme in "Perks of being a wallflower" is love. Love is…

Mark Twain once said, “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval” (Edberg). In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, all characters seem as if they are dealing with a personal issue. We are all broken people, and this makes it easy for us as readers to draw parallels between our own lives and the lives of the characters. I can easily relate to Charlie as he is trying to figure out who he is and who he wants to be. Freshman year of high school is a difficult season of life, and it seems as…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Film is movie based on the lives of three Czechoslovaks during the 1968 Prague Spring social liberation and consequent Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion. The military coup reestablished a strong socialist regime more in line with the Soviet Union vision of a strong dictatorship of the Communist Party. This was in order to prevent dissidents or free minds from disrupting the central socialist government administration. The film portrays the lives of a Tomas, a…

My first book for ABU was The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In this book it starts out with a fifteen year old boy named Charlie who writes about his life in a letter format. In the beginning of the book Charlie talks about the first year of high school and his friend Michael who went suicide. He talks about how much he misses Michael and he was confused on why he didn’t tell him that he was depressed. Then he describes his family. In his family Charlie has a sister, a brother, a mother, a…

Zahwa Ezzelden Prof. Forman 12/01/2017 Gender Queer Theories In the short drama “The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde”, the story takes place in the Victorian Era. In the Victorian Era, it was very common for the Male to be in charge, and the one with the higher classes, versus the female, where the female is usually the one that would stay home, cook and clean and be the modest one. Oscar Wilde took a spin on the “proper” gender roles that are appropriate for that Era and he made…