Cecily in importance of being earnest
- Created by: lale31
- Created on: 07-01-19 11:29
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- CECILY
- WHAT
- Victorian Hypocrisy
- Represents the country
- child of nature
- Naive
- ingenue character
- Doesn't like seriousness
- Comparison to Gwendolen
- mirroring, both obsessed with the name of Ernest
- She is Gwendolen's equal in repartee ,despite her limited experience
- HOW
- REALISTIC CHARACTERshe is the only character who does not speak in epigrams
- Dramatic Irony: "I know no one who has a higher sense of duty and responsibility"
- MIRRORING "I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not called Ernest"
- VICTORIAN HYPOCRISY"If you are not wicked, then you have certainly been deceiving us all"
- TOWN AND COUNTRY: Cecily doesn't like the town. “I believe most London houses are extremely vulgar…I believe the aristocracy are suffering very much.”
- WHY
- Feminism
- Separate spheres debate
- Victorian morality
- WHAT
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