Essays on The Importance of Being Earnest

There are many factors such as: weather, attending friends, and reason for attendance, that go in to whether or not the audience member has a successful play going experience. Like a typical summer night in Florida, the dark sky was threatening to let forth an unforgiving storm. Being dropped off reduced much of the tension…

Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, features many themes; one of the most prominent being conflict among the two social classes. Wilde’s play shows the differences in behavior between the upper and lower classes. The upper class have a great amount of pride, feeling as though they are entitled to their positions in…

The Importance of Being Earnest, a play written by Oscar Wilde, allows its audience to dive into the everyday Victorian lifestyle and adds twist of comedy and humor along the way. It focuses on two main characters, Jack and Algernon, who are bachelors who take on the role of double lives to seemingly feel accepted…

The Importance Of Being Earnest focuses on the elite, and while making fun of their absurdities and excesses, it also revels in their witty banter and rambunctious lives. Wilde was undoubtedly an astute social critic, but it is his wit that sets him apart. One of the ways Wilde’s wit manifests itself is in puns….

In The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, humor functions through the use of Characterization and the social satire of the Victorian period. Characterization is the method an author uses to reveal or describe characters and their various personalities. Satire is a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or…

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being EarnestWhile some critics contend that The Importance of Being Earnest iscompletely fanciful and has no relation to the real world, others maintain thatOscar Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people” does make significant commentsabout social class and the institution of marriage. These observations includethe prevalent utilization of deceit in everyday…

The play begins in the flat of Algernon Moncrieff, an English bachelor. Visited by his friend Jack Worthing, though Algernon and everyone else in London know Jack as “Ernest.” Jack says that he has come to town to propose to Gwendolen Fairfax, the daughter of Lady Bracknell, first cousin of Algernon. Algernon tells Jack that…

A Marxist Criticism on “The Importance of Being Earnest”A Marxist Criticism on “The Importance of Being Earnest””Excuse me Geoffrey, could you get me some more water. I’m terriblythirsty, and the weather out here isn’t doing any good for my complexion. “declares the man as he sighs in exhaustion. “Right away sir, anything else?” proclaims the…

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1854 to his parents William and Lady Francesca Wilde. In 1871 Wilde entered Trinity College in Dublin where he excelled at his studies. Oscar Wilde wrote several books and plays. Here are some of his works include: The Picture of Dorian Gray , Lady Windermere”s Fan ,…

The discussion of moral messages and observations in The Importance of Being Earnest lean towards a more didactic approach to art. Addressing the play as either a satire or a celebration of Victorian society might also suggest that it is a mimetic approach. Wilde’s aesthetic doctrines completely disagree with these two approaches. Wilde believes that…