... things of life with sincere and studied triviality." This essay investigates how far "The Importance of Being Earnest" reflects this view on life. Oscar Wilde subtitled his play "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People". The play is a comedy of manners satirising the attitudes and behaviour of the upper ... . The name is central to the plot regarding marriage to women with money and status. Marriage is at the centre of the plot and Oscar Wilde frequently mocks this institution. Wilde trivialises the idea of marriage being a sacrosanct institution. At the beginning of the play Algernon and Lan...

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• Grade Level: High School

... proponent of mutual aid Peter Kropotkin a Russian zoologist summed it up best when he said that "animals which acquire the habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest" Oscar McCulloch, a reverend in Indiana, called mutual aid the "forgotten laws of nature." Mutual aid would not have been a favorite of early social Darwinists because it does not fit ... or just did not bother the Americans who were usually very anti communist. It is hard to imagine a person like Oscar McCulloch a reverend in the Midwest and Kropotkin getting along but I think they would have at this strange moment i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate