... their difference was that Wild used it to define an aesthetic point and Shaw used it to present ideas. As far as "The importance of being Earnest" is concerned,the play satirizes the aristocracy of the time,the upper class.Who's life's are concerned with manners and customs.The characters lie to be rewarded with love and better social status but later they find out that they haven't been lying at ... underpaying and overworking women in the capitalistic society. Some of the differences between the two plays are that in Wild's "The importance of being Earnest" the criticism comes in camo...

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... sincere and studied triviality." Oscar Wilde1 While it is possible to declare Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of being Earnest" as pure nonsense with the only aim to entertain, a closer look reveals its sobriety. Oscar Wilde wrote a comedy of manners, mistaken identity and social conventions.2 The story is set in the English society of the 1890's, the society against whose aristocracy, artificiality and clinging to social standards this play is aimed at ... realizing that they are laughing at their own values and conventions. Words: 1557 Bibliography M. H. Abrams A Glossary of Litera...

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... eyelashes and making oneself wanted without seeming trampy or coquettish was the acceptable flirting technique of the early 1900's. This instillment of thought was put into the women's minds as young children, which grew and developed as the young lady matured and approached to the direction of marriage. In The Importance of Being Earnest, initially, Lady Bracknell is in control over Jack/Earnest and Gwendolen's relationship. In Gwendolen's opinion, her mother watches over her ... about and makes it more comprehensible. By understanding the resemblance's and divisions between the three ...

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... humour masks its social satire. There is much verbal wit in The Importance of Being Earnest - Algernon to servant, Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility' (Act 1, page 2) In the final act of The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack Worthing says of Miss Prism (who he mistakenly believes to be his long-lost and ... 1, Scene 1, page 6). Though The School for Scandal focuses on the elite (work being an anathema to the world of Society), much like Wilde's The Importanc...

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