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The Strange Importance of Identity Humans are incredibly social creatures, and strive to be their personal best so they will have a stamp of approval from society. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde this is seen clearly in both sets of works. During the Victorian era, social status was very important and determined who you were in society, it was paramount to be in the upper class of society. However,…

Characters: Jack Worthing- In the importance of being Ernest, the play’s main character, Jack has two imaginary roles. Jack himself and Ernest, his made up brother. In the city, Jack is himself, Jack. In the country, he switches and calls himself Ernest, his made up brother. He uses the character of Ernest to get away from issues he does not want to be in, like he can say, “Sorry my brother Ernest is sick, I have to go.” Jack is an orphan that was found in a silver handbag in the cloakroom of…

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…

In the Victorian world, men, for the most part, have substantially greater influence than women in everyday society in many different ways. Men make important political decisions for the well being of their families, while women tend to the normal chores of keeping the house clean and the children in check. The ways in which society places value over men and women is also drastically different. Men are generally admired for their intuition, understanding, reasoning and intelligence, while…

The Victorian Era in the British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 until her death in 1901. This era was known for having a class conflict. People were either extremely poor or filthy rich. Many writers in the Victorian period used literature to voice their opinions about the class system, one of whom was Oscar Wilde. He used his comedy play “The Importance of Being Earnest” to discuss serious matters about the class conflict in the Victorian period in a humorous way. In…

order to have more fun and enjoy their lives. In the play “The Importance of Being Ernest” by Oscar Wilde, shows many deceptions throughout the play. The main characters in the play are Algernon, and Ernest (Jack). Algernon is friends with Ernest Worthing. Ernest real name is Jack. Jack is used in the country because his life is boring. He is a responsible guardian of a young pretty girl named, Cecily. This caused Jack to make up a story that he has a younger brother named Ernest, who lives in…

will march on your deck, tear up your screens and sneak into your garage. Sound familiar? Most people who live in the country can answer this question yes, but how about those in town? Well, throughout my many years of living in the small town of Worthing, South Dakota, I had many cats come and go. However, one of the many cats chose to stay awhile. This cat was as fluffy as a cotton ball. His fur had caramel and chocolate colored stripes and one black stripe that went from his nose, down his…

In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, each character has a distinct alter ego that they wear at some point during the play. Authorities on Wilde 's play have described Bunburying as “the confusion and then the restoration of identities” (Craft 23). The first introduced is called Bunbury. After this first instance of role-playing, the name Bunbury, or the term Bunburying comes to apply primarily to the two male leads throughout the rest of the play, and to equate to a false identity.…

example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility,” (I.17). Lady Bracknell, a woman of higher class, questions Jack, a man of lower class, in his relationship with Gwendolen, “Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew at all connected … with any of the larger railway stations in London? I merely desire information. Until yesterday I had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a Terminus. [Jack looks perfectly…

the course. My time spent in this module challenged me to think deeper about the conventions of certain genres. I had to manipulate them in order to understand them better. I started a microblog on Instagram devoted to my darling puppy, Earnest Worthing Farr. I titled the blog The Importance of Being Dog because my dog’s namesake comes from the famous…