... humour masks its social satire. There is much verbal wit in The Importance of Being Earnest - Algernon to 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 ... 1, Scene 1, page 6). Though The School for Scandal focuses on the elite (work being an anathema to the world of Society), much like Wilde's The Importanc...

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