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Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Description: The Importance of Being Earnest notes, 2nd Semester English Composition.
Description: The Importance of Being Earnest notes, 2nd Semester English Composition.
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Kai Devla
English Composition
5/12/16
English Composition II Final
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Jack is fairly respectable and well off, and has a house in the country and city
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He’s friends with Jack but is a bit more sly,
selfish and classy
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Other characters present would be Cecily, Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell
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Gwendolen is another girl who’s Jack’s lady friend, and is Lady
Bracknell’s daughter
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Finally there’s
Lady Bracknell who is very to the book when it comes to the classic aristocracy
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But soon after the
characters are in Hertfordshire, England at Jack’s country house, for the remaining of the play
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The biggest dramatic question in the play is, who do we think we are?
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Jack is in love with
Gwendolen and Algy is in love with Cecily
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In the first act Jack and Algy find out each other's alternate personality and Algy is
tempted to meet Cecily
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But shortly after
Algy shows up posing as Ernest stating that it was a hoax that he’d passed away
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Through a conversation between the two girl they realize
that they’re engaged to the same man
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The men converse a bit and come back to the girls and notify them that they are
to be christened that afternoon
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Prism and Lady Bracknell along with the four previous characters it’s uncovered that Ernest and
Algy are brothers and that Lady Bracknell is their Aunt
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Thus ending everything on a happy note with
both couples engaged and happy
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The tone of the play follows a mocking/joking rhythm making fun of the high british aristocratic
lifestyle
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The language of the characters can be best described as a high aristocratic victorian british
english
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Earnest means to have a
sincere or serious view towards something
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Poking fun of the high british aristocracy is
quite funny along with the epigrams said by characters like Lady Bracknell
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Description: The Importance of Being Earnest notes, 2nd Semester English Composition.
Description: The Importance of Being Earnest notes, 2nd Semester English Composition.