The plot is based around the desires of two young upper class men to marry two young upper class ladies, who in turn desire only to marry men named Ernest. ... Jack and Algernon are characters who lie in order to be Ernest, but in doing so they are not being earnest. ... " my ideal has always been to marry some one of the name Ernest ..The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you"(Act 1page23) When Jack asks if Gwendolen's decision about his name is irrevocable she answers, "I never change, except in my affections...

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

Fearful that they will be left with no money, she makes marrying them "the business of her life.... As Hazel Jones notes, there were many women who acted similarly, privileging a steady income and home over the possibility of happiness.6 If happiness was found in marriage it was usually just an added bonus; few marriages were actually created in happiness. ... When Collins proposes, she instantly rejects him because she knows that he will not make her happy. ... "8 In doing so, she highlights the idea that women and men are essentially just humans, rather than 'female' and...

• Word Count: 5516
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is because Desdemona is risking losing her culture and reputation as a white Venetian of middle-to-upper class, and to marry a black Moorish general who is not a land-owner. ... Roderigo paid Iago to assist him to win Desdemona's heart "thou, Iago, who hast had my purse/As if the strings were thine- [1.1.2-3] in which case we as a contemporary audience must ask ourselves, can love be merely purchased with gold and silver? Does money guarantee the power to own anything of one's heart's desires? ... The Duke also has the privilege and the right to define and judge Othello...

• Word Count: 3595
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Vivian though, we know, is not wealthy. ... This argument is further strengthened by his conversation with Vivian when she tells him "Baby, I"m gonna treat you so good, you"ll never let me go". ... She tells him "you"re not my pimp . ... I say who, I say when". ... Despite her awareness of her inferior social status, she pertly reminds Higgins that if he were a gentleman he would ask her to sit down during their first meeting. ...

• Word Count: 3802
• Approx Pages: 15