The Importance of Being Earnest
In this blog I will discuss Notes on Love and Marriage by Michael Vance, posted on May 2000. I am going to talk about Michael Vance's analysis on The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde.Michael Vance has a great discussion about love and marriage using the help of good quotes from Oscar Wilde's play. He described the play as satire in which he states that "many of the rules, morals, and hypocritical practices and ideas of Wilde's day were made a mockery". Michael Vance analyzed the play by focussing on the plot of The Importance of Being Earnest, upon the desires of two young men to marry two young women who in turn desire to marry only men named Ernest, for the name has an absolute confidence as the women described where I can say that women on the 19th century have an ideal man. He analyzed that women are frequently lacking themselves to their own ideal world of who will they love or marry based on their expectations and customs. The women even thought that marriage to anyone with another name would have been inconceivable, but I believe that as they confess their love to their man, they have realized that the name, wether it is Ernest or not, is not a big deal after all. Behind knowing the truth before the last scene of the play that the women's, Gwendolyn and Cecily, men real names are Jack and Algernon, the two young woman still choses to get marry with them. Luckily in the ending, Jack finally known his family background with the help of Lady Bracknell, Gwendolyn's mom, and found out that his christian name is Ernest and that he was saying the truth after all.
Works Cited:Vance, Michael. "Notes on Love and Marriage: Perspectives from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest an Analysis." http://kamus3.homestead.com/wilde.html, May 2000.
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ReplyDeleteWow,sounds very interesting. Can't say I would do the same thing,but I understand why they would go to the extreme of picking men with the name Ernest, but at the same time it really doesn't make a difference whatsoever. It is really hard to find a man who can be completely honest,That define what honesty really means. I been married for 3yrs and I can say it's hard to be honest sometimes, but it's the right thing to do in the end. I would love to look up this article. Very intriguing!
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