Satire In The Importance Of Being Earnest
A Dublin born Oscar Wilde was destined for greatness. Oscar Wilde was an ingenious play-writer and novelist of his time. One play that Oscar Wilde created though stood out amongst the rest of his work. This particular play would question a lot of morals and would also make a mockery out of the high prestigious people of the Victorian society, that play was entitled “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
In Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Wilde uses comical satire to describe the high society class of the Victorian era, were image and social status is important as breathing. “The Importance of Being Earnest” play brought about “light comedy” (Bastiat 53) and the satirical humor that allowed one the look of how marriage, the nature of marriage, and love makes men like Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing (Ernest), able to keep up a farce of leading double lives. These two men escape the social status of high society and their responsibilities, in order to gain the love of two women Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, but social …show more content…
He was a brilliant play-writer and novelist. Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” play gives the inside knowledge of what Victorian society and social status was like in the Victorian era. He satirized the people of the Victorian society in his play and the ones who bought tickets because he wanted them to see the nonsense he thought love and marriage was. Wilde also wanted the people to see that social status shouldn’t matter, that everything is bond to change and will without anyone saying or doing anything about it. What Wilde wanted most of all though was he wanted to make people laugh and be accepted in society for the man that he was. Though Wilde’s life and career came to a tragic ending for the play write and novelist at the age of only 46 years old, Wilde’s work is still credited as a huge part of ionic Literature and will always remain that
In Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Wilde uses comical satire to describe the high society class of the Victorian era, were image and social status is important as breathing. “The Importance of Being Earnest” play brought about “light comedy” (Bastiat 53) and the satirical humor that allowed one the look of how marriage, the nature of marriage, and love makes men like Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing (Ernest), able to keep up a farce of leading double lives. These two men escape the social status of high society and their responsibilities, in order to gain the love of two women Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, but social …show more content…
He was a brilliant play-writer and novelist. Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” play gives the inside knowledge of what Victorian society and social status was like in the Victorian era. He satirized the people of the Victorian society in his play and the ones who bought tickets because he wanted them to see the nonsense he thought love and marriage was. Wilde also wanted the people to see that social status shouldn’t matter, that everything is bond to change and will without anyone saying or doing anything about it. What Wilde wanted most of all though was he wanted to make people laugh and be accepted in society for the man that he was. Though Wilde’s life and career came to a tragic ending for the play write and novelist at the age of only 46 years old, Wilde’s work is still credited as a huge part of ionic Literature and will always remain that