... 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 unmarried mother) "Who has the right ... other 1890's society comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband are serious dramas about the intractability of sexual double-standards and the personal costs of respectability. Issues that Wilde appears, possibly,...

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