The Importance of Being Earnest

of the texts, whether it’s romantical, friendships or familial. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ presents mainly romantic relationships as it is a key part of the play and links with the characters identities. Whereas ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ portrays platonic love and affection that characters have for one another. Both writers present…

is the joining of two souls that deeply care about each other enough to devote their lives to each other. Their desire to spend time with each other everyday rules above all else. The books of “Wuthering Heights” “Mrs.Dalloway” and the “Importance of Being Earnest” shows the irony and exposes the fact that in each respective time period that the novels were set in, no one marries for their feelings for one another. Love is an ideal to strive for at all times, but there is rarely an instance…

fulfill household chores. Men and women searched form an ideal relationship based on the expectations of a demanding society. Men were seen as more rational and stronger and therefore suited to the politics and business world. In Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the author presents the perceptions, narratives, and situations during the period. From the first scene, Wilde aims to present…

truth in the end. Even though people lie to avoid the truth, the truth always seems to reveal itself somehow. Oscar Wilde portrays the previous statement repeatedly in his plays, especially in his final play, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. In Earnest, Wilde formulates the play…

Gender is a socially constructed term which could be defined as attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. Based on The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde that is set in late 19th century, the Victorian era. In the 19th century, men are supposed to be more dominant than women. Wilde’s purpose of this play is to criticise the hypocritical society and hence, gender reversals is observed in this play. Gender reversal can be seen in…

In the comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, one of the main topics presented in the play is marriage and more specifically, whether it is pleasure or business. The five main characters in the play: Jack Worthing, Algernon Moncrieff, Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen Fairfax, and Cecily Cardew each have contrasting views and define love differently. The older generation’s outlook on marriage being mainly about an arrangement and social duty and the younger generations caring more…

In the comical play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, the author conveys a theme of the nonexistence of true love. Throughout his play, he uses two couples to illustrate his satire on his view of love by showing that they “love” each other dearly, to the point that they are engaged. One thing as small as a name is able to break these relationships. Both of the men in this illustration are incognito under the identity of “Earnest”. Both of the women see their name as a deal breaker…

The Importance of Being Earnest is about a character called Jack Worthing, who is the guardian of an eighteen-year-old girl called Cecily Jacobs. For years, to escape from the responsibiities in the country, Jack pretended to have an irresponsible brother called Earnest in the city whom he has to visit every once in a while to get him out of trouble. In fact, Jack is known in the city as Earnest and leads the kind of life he criticizes his imaginary brother for. No one knew that fact except for…

As social animals, human beings marshal themselves into social groups that construct the society. Such an act may appear to be a de minimis but forsooth, the setting that people are put into has a prominent effect on the person. In the dynamic play by Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, the setting is more than a mere backdrop that sets the mood for the play; instead, Wilde initiates a setting that acts as a nonhuman character in the play. That is, the setting, similar to the…

Oscar Wilde implements a heavy focusses significant attention on class in The Importance of Being Earnest. People with and without money behave very differently, though strive for the same response and impressions from their peers. The characters in this novel are exaggerated to the point of absurdity when it comes to their obsession with class. Victorian upper class demands its members to keep up an important image in society and value money and appearance above all else, including people.…