... and Gwendolen keep diaries to document their thoughts and actions, but primarily so they could read something "sensational". Here, Wilde tries to expose the shallowness and frivolity of Victoriana and the stereotypes that people (especially women) were forced into. A major theme of The Importance of Being Earnest is John Worthing's search for his own identity. John was found as an infant in a leather bag at Victoria Railway Station. As a result ... of this, John asks Lady Bracknell towards the end of the play, "Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me w...

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... , money outweighs age. Too often one can see an old millionaire with a nice looking twenty five year old wife. The next theme that people can associate with today's world is the acts and reputation of society. In the play, and in the society, people only married within their classes because marriage to a lower class would be frowned upon. Jack is egger to marry Gwendolen, but her ... saying "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine- comes in play here because when people do that, they often do not think about the long term consequences and how it can affect other people. Overall, The I...

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• Grade Level: High School

... express art, comedy, and tragedy in both "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and the Importance of Being Earnest. Art has always been present in the high cultures on London, and the world, during the past centuries. Being able to produce art takes immense skill; precise brush strokes are done by the steady hand of a master; soaking in the environment takes the mind of a genius; and the publicizing of the piece takes the skill of the salesman. This is all good and true ... Oscar Wilde and other aesthetes have for life and the arguments it may hold. Aesthetes very much showed exile or isolation,...

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