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¶ … Lady Bracknell "The Importance Being Earnest" Oscar Wilde title ' make laugh make mad?"
Oscar Wilde wrote an amazing piece of satire of Victorian times, placing his characters at the intersection between social normality and personal normality. As some of the most important characters of "The Importance of Being Earnest" have a double life, he goes deep into societal norms and presents a world where individuals take the freedom to be themselves.
The play rotates around the issue of marriage and the fact that in Victorian times, for the upper class, these were made in the ways of interest. The important issues were not love, matching or personal chemistry, but nobility -- coming from origins and parents, and money.
The action starts when Algernon Moncrieff receives the visit of his good friend Ernest Worthing, coming there to propose into marriage Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen. As a condition of acceptance,...
The two gentlemen admit in the end of their discussion that they each have a double life that offers them the possibility to exist out of the norms of their society. Ernest's real name is Jack and he offers himself a libertine life in the city. On the other hand, Algernon invents a friend in the countryside whom he can visit in order to escape society when he needs.
This is the moment when Lady Bracknell enters the play. She represents the symbol of Victorian ethics and norms and she will not allow for a marriage between her daughter Gwendolen and Ernest as she sees him unfit for her. Victorian society was a closed and rigid world where women like Lady Bracknell represented the models of normality. Contrary to modern perceptions on values, her marriage plans for her daughter were based on how well off such a marriage could get her daughter. Lady Bracknell is the keeper of traditions, rules and ethics and creates a world around her where people respect her, but most likely obey her.
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This forces us to think that even though we may try to fool others and ourselves, the truth of who we are is never far from what we are trying to show. Sincere -- or earnest -- is, it appears, the worst thing that one can be in Victorian England. Being sincere means that one has to be true to who they are and must not try to deceive anyone.
Oscar Wilde "a man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." James Joyce Genius is based on many elements, human and circumstantial. Nothing enables genius to evolve from some internal inchoate spark into a staggering, illuminating flare as the capacity to be external to social norms. The public expects artists to move well beyond the quotidian in artistic form. The funny lines in a play
Marriage as a theme in, "The Importance of Being Earnest." Marriage is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as a formal or legally recognized union of two individuals (usually male and female but some jurisdiction allow same sex marriages) in a relationship (Definition of Marriage). The idea that the two individuals are in a relationship or partnership implies that the union has been formed willingly and that both parties are happy. It also
She does not believe that she has a reputation worthy enough of being allowed entry into the upper echelons of Victorian society. Her perception of Cecily, and her prospects for marrying her nephew -- change dramatically, however, when Lady Bracknell ascertains how much money the young woman stands to inherit. The following quotation suitably demonstrates this point. A hundred and thirty thousand pounds! And in the Funds! Miss Cardew seems
Being Earnest A Critique of Wilde's the Importance of Being Earnest First performed in 1895, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest satirized manners and social customs of late Victorian England. Focusing on a pair of young men who live "double lives," the comedy brings to light an element of English society that was ripe for exposure. Wilde was a master satirist. With this play, he shows how cynical attitudes creep
Jack proceeds to let the audience know "…the vital importance of Being Earnest." Distortion, Moral Conduct, and Restoration Comedy Of course, deception and frivolity are part of a farce, and the way that Wilde has written the play characters switch identities as a way for the theme to be deliberately distorted. So this bothers critic Mary McCarthy, who complained that the play has the character of a "…ferocious idyll" and insists