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''Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.”
act 1, this exchange continues the long-running marriage gag, which treats the whole Victorian notion of “married bliss” with a kind of gallows humor. it also initiates the play’s darker subtext. What Algernon suggests is that all husbands in Victorian so
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“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produce
interview with jack, Wilde is on one level sending up the boorish ignorance and vacuity of the British leisured classes. On another level, Wilde is making a serious social and political point. A good deal of truth exists in what Bracknell says. Education,
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces
Lady Bracknell is implying that if the poor and the downtrodden in England knew anything about anything they would overthrow the ruling class. the speech exemplifies one of the ways in which Wilde’s comedy works. The characters in The Importance of Being
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
act 1, Algernon’s reply to Jack’s question is a perfect example of the Wildle's epigram: a statement that briefly and elegantly turns some piece of received or conventional wisdom on its head.Typically, the Wildean epigram consists of two elements: an out
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“My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.”
Jack: “On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
last lines in the play. the notion of earnestness has taken several forms. Earnestness is a concept that can be best grasped by looking at its opposites. Here it is presented as the opposite of “triviality,” while elsewhere it means the opposite of seriou
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ALGERNON. Darling! And when was the engagement actually settled? CECILY. On the 14th of February last. Worn out by your entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted
Cecily explains to Algernon the details of her engagement to Ernest, which has taken place entirely in her imagination. She thinks Algernon is Ernest, Cecily, unaware that Jack invented Ernest to hide his own reprobate behavior, has fallen in love with Er
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'I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the hand-bag.'
Miss Prism, Cecily’s governess, explains how she came to lose an infant under her care. Wilde uses the melodramatic plot device of mistaken identity but with an ironic twist. Miss Prism substitutes her manuscript for a human baby, which shows she thinks o
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'Good heavens is marriage as demoralising as that'
The scene establishes a relationship familiar to stage comedies and light operas, that of the indolent, self-indulgent aristocrat and his worldly, wily servant. The audience would expect the servant to try to keep his master from marrying, so as not to cu
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JACK. I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. ALGERNON. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business. JACK. How utterly unromantic you are! ALGERNON. I really don’t see anything romantic in pr
Jack confides in Algernon about his intentions toward Gwendolen, Algernon’s cousin. Algernon’s response reveals his aristocratic attitude that marriage functions primarily as a financial arrangement. Algernon also maintains a confirmed bachelor’s antagoni
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'it would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once'
this highlights the Victorian societies view on marriage but also the aristocracy view of marriage and how nothing is ever tur its always for show or shallow meaning.
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'You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter—a girl brought up with the utmost care—to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel.'
Bracknell's response to jack not knowing who his parents were, having been left in a hand-bag in the cloak-room before being adopted by a rich old man. She previously seemed to approve of Jack’s wealth, but his lack of family connections exists as an insu
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'Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.'
here Lady Bracknell is stating the importance of class to her. Both Lady Bracknell and Algernon feel so assured of their place in society that they imagine themselves to be conferring favor on Cecily by allowing her to bring money into their family.
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“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produce

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interview with jack, Wilde is on one level sending up the boorish ignorance and vacuity of the British leisured classes. On another level, Wilde is making a serious social and political point. A good deal of truth exists in what Bracknell says. Education,

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces

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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

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“My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.”
Jack: “On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

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