The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most well-known and successful satires to date. Written in the late 1890s, this play openly mocked Victorians morals and values so well that he became a subject of criticism from parliament and political figures across the country. Oscar Wilde was the most notorious writer of his time, and The Importance of Being Earnest explores his common themes of identity and romance in the English gentry.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde was the son of the distinguished surgeon Sir William Wilde and of Jane Francesca Elgee, a feminist and ardent prop...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde was the son of the distinguished surgeon Sir William Wilde and of Jane Francesca Elgee, a feminist and ardent prop...
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Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid-nineteenth century, the British theater...
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Few writers have managed to remain world famous without the support of the schools. Oscar Wilde is one of them. Not generally regarded by academics as major or important, Wilde's work has figured ve...
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Oscar Wilde brightened up, for the English-speaking world at least, the stiff and somber final years of the nineteenth century. Like the other magnificent Irishmen, Joyce and Beckett, who would cast ...
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Oscar Wilde as man and artist is a study of extremes and contradictions. He approached life empirically, as Walter Pater had taught him at Oxford, but the pupil determined to pursue sensation beyond ...
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Although Oscar Wilde is best remembered as a dramatist, novelist, essayist, poet, brilliant conversationalist, and flamboyant personality, he was also a writer of fairy tales. Wilde's notoriety--inclu...
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Oscar Wilde 's literary reputation rests primarily on his later plays and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Although he published only fourteen short stories and six prose poems, a me...
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Oscar Wilde was a reform writer through the trenchant moral and social criticism in his works. Famous for his public speaking and wit, Wilde has often been accused of merely reproducing witty repartee...
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The British author Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was part of the "art for art's sake" movement in English literature at the end of the 19th century. He is best known for his brilli...
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Biography Essay] Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid nineteenth century, the B...
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"Famous for his public speaking and wit, [Oscar] Wilde has often been accused of merely reproducing witty repartee in his plays, and the temptation to treat his work lightly is in large part due to hi...
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The main characters do use their double lives to escape social regulation, although in differing ways and on each character different social pressures are acting. The women live alternative mental li...
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A comedic movie, play, or book should have more importance in the world than they do. On any given night if someone were to watch the news or read the newspaper they would see just how dire a...
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One of the main characters of the book is Jack. He lives at the country side, but he goes quite often to the city to visit his friend Algernon. However, in the city they think his name is `Ernest', si...
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Oscar Wilde began writing the script for The Importance of Being Earnest with the intent of directing it to a live audience; little did he know that one day it would be directed to be pre-recorded on ...
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Oscar Wilde's comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes issues such as marriage, money, and death throughout the play. Wilde mocks the idea of marriage during the confrontations between Lady...
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The aim of most playwrights is to convey a message of interest or concern to their audience in order to educate them on issues faced in society, positioning them to form their own opinion on the issue...
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Firstly I would set this play in the 21st century so that a modern audience could relate to it. Algernon, one of the main characters in the play, would live in a luxury apartment in the centre of Lond...
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of manners, whereby Oscar Wilde uses satire to ridicule marriage, love and the mentality of the Victorian aristocratic society. It can also be referred to a...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Wilde
