The Importance of being Earnest is a Trivial comedy for serious people is a play by oscar wilde. first performed on 14 february 1895 at james Theater in London.
There are so many characters in the play like a
Algernon
Gwendolen
Lady Augusta Bracknell
Cecily Cardew
Miss Prism
The story started with one house of Algernon. who lives in city of London, also near by house of Lady bracknell with his Daughter Gwendolen. she is cousin sister of Algernon and Gwendolen also loves to Earnest. He has rakish identity. He loves to Gwendeon with the identity of the Ernest but his real name is jack.It's one of the story of the play also after story goes with the happy ending so end is very happy but in that some part is very different so we can say that this is story part of comedy.
But, when Jack means Earnest trust on the Algernon and gives his Real identity to but Jack is very different he does not want to trust upon his friend. so After he wants to go in the house of the Earnest. who has identity of Jack and meet to her . who is cecily aslo lives with his Guardian known as the name is jack.After a very different story that the Algernon can propose to Cecily so she says that yes, I want to marry with you with the identity of the his lover is now in the position of Earnest but in the virtual world there is no identity of the name is Earnest so we can say that without identity of Earnest. who has Existence of name as Earnest.
so that picture is saying that the end of the play is happy because both of them are marries with Together.here is some videos regarding the play.
Oscar
Fingal O'flahertie Wills Wilde (16
October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After
writing in different forms throughout the 1880 the early 1890 saw him become
one of the most popular playwrights in London.
He is best remembered for
his epigrams and plays, his
novel the picture of Dorian gray and
the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross Indecencies for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis.
As a spokesman for aestheticism,
he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems,
lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance
in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he
worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress
and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known
personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about
the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated
themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only
novel the picture of dorian gray (1890). The opportunity to
construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social
themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote salome 1891 in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an
absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English
stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s,
which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
Q(1)Wilde originally subtitled The Importance of Being Earnest “A Serious Comedy for Trivial People” but changed that to “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.” What is the difference between the two subtitles?
There are some difference between the both the Titles. So first title is saying that what is the meaning of Earnest. Generally we can take the meaning of Earnest is one type of honest person who always speak true but in that play some times he has spoken some lie words due to some reason .may be he does not want to give his identity to another people, who lives in different country but some he has honour things when he gives his realty to his friend.
Also in my point of view that the trivial means it has no value like example of the dog of the outside from the home as well as the cattles of road so people have no value of this kind of things also we can say that the paradoxical things in this comedy but we can not say that what will happen in this play.
2. Which of the female character is the most attractive to you among Lady Augusta Bracknell, Gwendolen Fairfax, Cecily Cardew and Miss Prism? Give your reasons for she being the most attractive among all.
There are many character in this play but most and changeable is Lady Bracknell.so how that character is change when the ending of the play Lady Bracknell change her thoughts and they decided that her daughter will marry with the Jack. so In that play at that moment she never agree with the marriage of her daughter is Gwendolen but after she says to her daughter to marriage with Earnest. so it's all about the Money. so Money is in centeredness of Society's people.
Another character is cecily Cardew is a very good girl. when she can put trust on Algernon with out seeing his Inner world so we can say that this is the good character of the play and another character is Gwendolen who loves to jack and wants to marry with his lover . who is Earnest. More than any other female character in the play, Gwendolen suggests the qualities of conventional Victorian womanhood. She has ideas and ideals, attends lectures, and is bent on self-improvement. She is also artificial and pretentious. Gwendolen is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Ernest, and she is fixated on this name. This preoccupation serves as a metaphor for the preoccupation of the Victorian middle- and upper-middle classes with the appearance of virtue and honor. Gwendolen is so caught up in finding a husband named Ernest, whose name, she says, “inspires absolute confidence, that she can’t even see that the man calling himself Ernest is fooling her with an extensive deception. In this way, her own image consciousness blurs her judgment.
Cecily is its antithesis. She is a child of nature, as ingenuous and unspoiled as a pink rose, However, her ingenuity is belied by her fascination with wickedness. She is obsessed with the name Ernest just as Gwendolen is, but wickedness is primarily what leads her to fall in love with “Uncle Jack’s brother, whose reputation is wayward enough to intrigue her. Like Algernon and Jack, she is a fantasist. She has invented her romance with Ernest and elaborated it with as much artistry and enthusiasm as the men have their spurious obligations and secret identities. Though she does not have an alter-ego as vivid or developed as Bunbury or Ernest, her claim that she and Algernon Ernest are already engaged is rooted in the fantasy world she’s created around Ernest. Cecily is probably the most realistically drawn character in the play, and she is the only character who does not speak in epigrams. Her charm lies in her idiosyncratic cast of mind and her imaginative capacity, qualities that derive from Wilde’s notion of life as a work of art. These elements of her personality make her a perfect mate for Algernon.
After the character is Miss prism can defined the Identity of the Jack.
3. The play repeatedly mocks Victorian traditions and social customs, marriage and the pursuit of love in particular. Through which situations and characters is this happening in the play.
so In that play some of the things are related with the some part which are doing that work as satirized to the some character of the play when Jack wants to marry with his friend gwendeloan but her mother denies due to some money problem so we can say that the Oscar wilde is Cricise to Victorian's time with the people at that time people will have desire to take some Rupees for live a very Healthy life . They may be believes that the without money we can't live a good life so money Through we can take and keep anything with us.
also one part we can take that the Major problem is cast so when some people will marry they must have to take the his cast character otherwise we can not allow to her to marriage with another guy eso its ill mentality of the people.
4. Queer scholars have argued that the play's themes of duplicity and ambivalence are inextricably bound up with Wilde's homosexuality, and that the play exhibits a "flickering presence-absence of… homosexual desire" Do you agree with this observation? Give your arguments to justify your stance.
yes, I am agree with the all statement which is given by the writer .who has describe the reality of the people when some part are related with the play The Importance of Being Earnest.
conclusion
The play is a very different ,but also related with humans mindset. Generally, people are giving most priority to Money rather than selfness. Marriage is center of the play Through the writer.
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