1. The importance of being Earnest
... I ever get married I"ll certainly try to forget the fact."(Act 1 p8) The suggestion in these exchanges is that there is no real happiness in marriage. Leading a double life is necessary according to Algernon to escape the demands of marriage. "you don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none."(Act 1 p16) Among the views ... to see marriage as a business transaction. Oscar Wilde trivialises the seriousness of illness and death in the play. Lady Bracknell overturns assumptions about illness, seeing it as something that a person wills upon himself. As far as...
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- Grade Level: High School