The Importance Of Being Earnest Data Sheet Analysis
Vanessa Romero
Ap Lit
Data Sheet: The Importance of being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Date of Publication: October 4, 2010
Pages: 106
ISBN Number: 9780415043687
Genre: Social Comedy
Biographical Information about the Author:
The famous writer, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, was born October 16, 1854 and died
November 30, 1900, but not before many of his works were published and recognised by many. Oscars father, William Wilde, was a doctor who founded St. Marks Ophthalmic Hospital at his own expense to treat the unfortunate. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, was a poet who did countless things that inspired Oscar to write. But Oscar had to earn his success like many others. He graduated from Enniskillen in 1871, with a …show more content…
Oscars language is written as one would speak in the 181900's giving the audience a sort of ancient, special, organised feeling. He also used great theories to help demonstrate the situation present.
Example demonstrating the authors style:
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility." (Act l, Scene l, 25)
Memorable Quotations with an explanation of the significance:
1>“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
This Quote is very descriptive of this play. Lying is a very big part throughout the storyline. The main characters maintain a double identity that leads them to get tangled up in a lie with the women they intend on marrying. In the end lying is what uncovered the truth about a character. It turned out that he was not lying, just got his facts wrong. The truth is not always clear, and it is never simple enough. 2>”If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music, people don't talk.”
This Quote is not exactly connected to the storyline as much as others might be, but it is connected to life in general. When people hear what might come pleasant to the ear they don't exactly listen as …show more content…
She is eighteen years old and has been fascinated with her uncle
Jacks ‘Brother’ Ernest ever since Jack started talking about him. She created a fake romance with him in her diary and is excited when algernon shows up pretending to be him. She accepts his proposal and reacts the same as gwendolen does when she finds out that she is not engaged to Earnest, but Algernon instead. She also forgives him and hopes to marry him. Cecily is there to send confusion to the other character of the story about
Earnest.
Beautiful
Young
Smart
Lady Bracknell
Lady Bracknell is the mother to Gwendolen and the aunt to Algernon. She is a very concerned women about her family and interviews Jack when he wants to marry Gwendolen. She denies them marriage because she wants her daughter to marry a wealthy man who can provide well for her.
Lady Bracknell is the connection between Jacks past and future. Older
Stubborn
Dr. Chasuble
Dr. Chasuble is the local rector who Jack and
Algernon go to so that they can get rechristened under the name Earnest to make sure their girls marry them.
He is the one who mentions
Miss Prism to the people who is connected
Ap Lit
Data Sheet: The Importance of being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Date of Publication: October 4, 2010
Pages: 106
ISBN Number: 9780415043687
Genre: Social Comedy
Biographical Information about the Author:
The famous writer, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, was born October 16, 1854 and died
November 30, 1900, but not before many of his works were published and recognised by many. Oscars father, William Wilde, was a doctor who founded St. Marks Ophthalmic Hospital at his own expense to treat the unfortunate. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, was a poet who did countless things that inspired Oscar to write. But Oscar had to earn his success like many others. He graduated from Enniskillen in 1871, with a …show more content…
Oscars language is written as one would speak in the 181900's giving the audience a sort of ancient, special, organised feeling. He also used great theories to help demonstrate the situation present.
Example demonstrating the authors style:
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility." (Act l, Scene l, 25)
Memorable Quotations with an explanation of the significance:
1>“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
This Quote is very descriptive of this play. Lying is a very big part throughout the storyline. The main characters maintain a double identity that leads them to get tangled up in a lie with the women they intend on marrying. In the end lying is what uncovered the truth about a character. It turned out that he was not lying, just got his facts wrong. The truth is not always clear, and it is never simple enough. 2>”If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music, people don't talk.”
This Quote is not exactly connected to the storyline as much as others might be, but it is connected to life in general. When people hear what might come pleasant to the ear they don't exactly listen as …show more content…
She is eighteen years old and has been fascinated with her uncle
Jacks ‘Brother’ Ernest ever since Jack started talking about him. She created a fake romance with him in her diary and is excited when algernon shows up pretending to be him. She accepts his proposal and reacts the same as gwendolen does when she finds out that she is not engaged to Earnest, but Algernon instead. She also forgives him and hopes to marry him. Cecily is there to send confusion to the other character of the story about
Earnest.
Beautiful
Young
Smart
Lady Bracknell
Lady Bracknell is the mother to Gwendolen and the aunt to Algernon. She is a very concerned women about her family and interviews Jack when he wants to marry Gwendolen. She denies them marriage because she wants her daughter to marry a wealthy man who can provide well for her.
Lady Bracknell is the connection between Jacks past and future. Older
Stubborn
Dr. Chasuble
Dr. Chasuble is the local rector who Jack and
Algernon go to so that they can get rechristened under the name Earnest to make sure their girls marry them.
He is the one who mentions
Miss Prism to the people who is connected