111 28 February 2014 Humor and Conflict in The Importance of Being Earnest Comedy often uses conflict to create a dull‚ everyday situation into something exciting and people find them funny because we often laugh at the mishaps of others. When the characters’ viewpoints are extreme and exaggerated‚ it makes the situation amusing to watch and follow since things are getting crazy. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ by Oscar Wilde‚ successfully creates humorous outcomes from disagreements between
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In Oscar Wilde’s play‚ “The Importance of Being Earnest‚” the traditionally esteemed values of duty‚ honesty‚ and hard work are tossed aside in favor of baser motivations. Pleasure‚ rather than morality‚ is the focus of every decision made by these less than admirable characters. As eloquently stated by Jack‚ “…pleasure‚ pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere?” (1735). The characters treat serious responsibilities such as marriage‚ family‚ and faithfulness as mere trivialities that can be
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me that throughout Oscar Wilde’s life there was a degree of personal uncertainty he bestowed upon himself. This was very much reflected in his social lifestyle‚ personality and dress sense; but above all through his many dramatic works that reflect his often contrasting attitudes toward himself in his extravagant and highly esteemed approach to his writing of classic English literature. This is true for drama: the playwrights who write plays often incorporate aspects of their own lives into the
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ESSAY – THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Writers are often influenced by the ideologies upheld by society during the historical context in which they were writing in and texts can often challenge these ideologies‚ or uphold them‚ or even do both. Oscar Wilde’s‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ is a dramatic comedy of manners that takes place in polite wealthy Victorian society. Wilde successfully funnels the snobbery and superficiality of London’s elite during the 1890’s and has both challenged
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a play that trivializes many things: the Victorian society‚ the nature of marriage and especially the concept of human identity. While identity is typically considered to be something concrete‚ the characters within the play are constantly in flux. This is especially evident in Jack‚ whose forms his identities as he goes through life. He transforms from a nameless baby in a handbag‚ to Jack the thriving member of the countryside bourgeois‚ then further on to become
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" is the drama written by Oscar Wilde. Wilde played it in the Victorian era. During this period‚ people had the very restricted lives. In addition‚ the petit bourgeoisie was appeared. They got a lot of money in this society‚ by the development of the science and the industry. The middle class didn’t have any leadership‚ but tried to pretend like the nobility and becoming as the snob. Furthermore‚ the dignity was the most important thing to them. It was the circumstance
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WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 4 ANALYSIS OF HUMOR IN THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST The Importance of Being Earnest is replete with two elements: pun and paradox. These two are played up immensely to present a very humorous approach to cultural criticism. In essence‚ it is a satirical comedy on the aristocratic class during the Victorian Era. The text is full of epigrams that expose the characters’ views on lying‚ marriage‚ reputation‚ society‚ gender‚ romance and love. Additionally‚ the play keeps
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it? ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’: 1. Cigarette case: The cigarette case introduced in Act 1 acts as a source for introducing the conflict. It leads the audience to discover John and Algernon’s double lives and introduces the notion of ‘Bunburying’ as named by Algernon. 2. Food: Food is used as a prop quite frequently throughout the play. In Act 1‚ we see Algernon preparing cucumber sandwiches for the arrival of Lady Bracknell and bread and butter for Gwendolen. Wilde uses the choice
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Discuss Wilde’s use of comedy in The Importance of being Earnest. One technique that Wilde uses to comic effect is allowing bits of information to be revealed and withheld. In the scene where Algernon asks “why does she call herself little Cecily?” and then “But why does your aunt call you her uncle?” suggests that Algernon actually knows the truth‚ but he’s actually trying to get Jack to confess it himself. Not only does it suggests that Algernon knows the truth‚ it also suggests that he knows
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The “Importance of Being Earnest” is a story of full of deceit and a twisted and tangled tale about love. The story is about a man‚ named Jack that forms a fake identity to escape the country life; his false persona is named Ernest. Jack tells his family about his “brother” named Ernest and often goes to “visit him” when he needs to get away. Now‚ Ernest is in fact not a real person but a made up one. When Jack goes to the city and pretends to be Ernest‚ he goes to meet the love of his life‚ Gwendolyn
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