... on a railway line, and as such feels less at home in aristocratic society than does Algernon. He lives in the country but has invented a wicked brother named "Ernest" whose scrapes require Jack's attendance in the city. Algernon Moncrieff: Algernon, the foil to Jack, is the epitome of hedonism, ... he wasn't the appropriated one, a rich person, a socially known person, a person from the upper class I think this is a way to protest about the marriage. Apart from this, from my point of view the story becomes more and more interesting as the play goes on. I think that the scene ... writes...

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• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

... the play when she says to Algernon: "I hope that you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy." (Act 2 page 46) The play makes it clear ... his love and proposed marriage to Cecily having only known her for one afternoon. Following this meeting Cecily informs Ernest that she has actually been engaged to him for "the last three months". Cecily had become attracted to Ernest because ... play Lady Bracknell admits that she married her husband for money. "When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... titles collectively underlines the basic plot. It suggests that the grounding children received in their formative years would directly affect their adult lives. This comes evident as pupils of the Gradgrind system of education is not ready to tackle situations which require imagination or experience in life. In Hard ... it, when his mother turns up on the doorstep, she humiliates him quite unintentionally. In fact she really cares for her son as she quotes "Lord forgive you, sir, for your wicked imaginations" after Mr Gradgrind curses her saying she deserted Josiah in his infancy. Mr Bo...

• Word Count: 6193
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

... to fight back with her cousin when she was insulted and hit time and time. She denounced indignantly at the boy in her direct way: "Wicked and cruel boy! You are like a murderer-----you are like a slave driver----you are like the Roman emperors."(P5) These innocent ... Robert Browning once said: "when the fight begins within him, a man is worth something". Jane's catachrestic charm and value is embodied for the first time. John is the first object that Jane strikes back with. Then comes the next----Mrs. Read, a cold-blooded aunt who considered herself Jane's benefactor. ... later known, w...

• Word Count: 3066
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School