The Importance Of Being Ernest Research Paper
Introduction The Importance of Being Earnest was Oscar’s fourth comedy, and it was to be his last and most outstanding play. ‘The Trivial Comedy for Serious People‘ (in earlier drafts, ‘serious comedy for trivial people’) was first produced by George Alexander at the St James’s Theatre on 14th February 1895 in London. The play was reduced from four to three acts (Raby 161-163).
The Importance of Being Earnest contradicts banausic values in a utilitarian age (Varty 205). The comedy of manners and errors had a philosophy, which Wilde interpreted in an interview for the St James’s Gazette. It was “that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality” (McKenna …show more content…
But Wilde’s accomplishment he gained with The Importance of Being Earnest was suddenly replaced with author’s decline. After Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment the artworks from his production stopped being performed. It reverted to type in 1901, a year after Wilde’s death (Varty 205).
The main point of this farcical comedy resides in invention of fictional alter egos of main protagonists Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff under the pretext escaping from strenuous social obligations. The major themes of play are the triviality with which matters as serious as marriage are taken and mockery of Victorian rules.
Financial difficulties impelled Wilde to write Earnest extraordinarily quickly. “I am so pressed for money that I don’t know what to do” (McKenna 308). Here can be seen possible interlock between Wilde’s world and protagonist’s way of life. “Dear child, of course you know that Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend upon.” (Ross 163).
Thus, it can be argued that in The Importance of Being Earnest, the double life led by the protagonists [Jack and Algernon] corresponds to Wilde 's personal life of a fake marriage disguising his
The Importance of Being Earnest contradicts banausic values in a utilitarian age (Varty 205). The comedy of manners and errors had a philosophy, which Wilde interpreted in an interview for the St James’s Gazette. It was “that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality” (McKenna …show more content…
But Wilde’s accomplishment he gained with The Importance of Being Earnest was suddenly replaced with author’s decline. After Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment the artworks from his production stopped being performed. It reverted to type in 1901, a year after Wilde’s death (Varty 205).
The main point of this farcical comedy resides in invention of fictional alter egos of main protagonists Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff under the pretext escaping from strenuous social obligations. The major themes of play are the triviality with which matters as serious as marriage are taken and mockery of Victorian rules.
Financial difficulties impelled Wilde to write Earnest extraordinarily quickly. “I am so pressed for money that I don’t know what to do” (McKenna 308). Here can be seen possible interlock between Wilde’s world and protagonist’s way of life. “Dear child, of course you know that Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend upon.” (Ross 163).
Thus, it can be argued that in The Importance of Being Earnest, the double life led by the protagonists [Jack and Algernon] corresponds to Wilde 's personal life of a fake marriage disguising his