Homosexuality in “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
Bunburying is, defined by Algernon, an elaborate lie allowing one to misbehave or escape social obligations while appearing respectable and dutiful. This idea is summed up in the text when Jack quips “When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people.”.
In this play The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde satirized the Victorian age. By making a mockery of the Victorian ideals, Wilde threw a satirical spotlight on the Victorian age as a whole. The Victorian society fell in a passionate love with the idea of earnestness. The idea of living in an earnest manner was the topmost ideals of the Victorian society.
Algernon also says a comment about divorce: “Divorces are made in Heaven”. This is an inversion of the normal phrase “Marriages are made in Heaven”. Divorce would have being a topic up for much debate at the time not only because of the issue of money but also that women were basically subservient to men, which meant that women would.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1890, was extremely controversial. Many considered it morally wrong because of the things it portrayed (SparkNotes). But the main elements it portrayed, its themes, were common ones. The idolization of beauty and youth begins on page one and continues on through until the end.
Jack Worthing, the play’s protagonist, was discovered as an infant by the late Mr. Thomas Cardew in a handbag in the cloakroom of a railway station in London. Jack has grown up to be a seemingly responsible and respectable young man, a major landowner and Justice of the Peace in Hertfordshire.
Drama, Comedy, Satire and Parody. In the most basic sense, The Importance of Being Earnest is a drama. because it’s a play. It's also a comedy—not only in the modern laugh-out-loud way, but also in the classical sense, in that it features a set of characters overcoming adversity to achieve a happy ending. Earnest is the classic marriage comedy, where couples fall in love, but can't be.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality.