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DEADLINE: 9th June
MIND LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR, PLEASEEEEE!!!!!
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1. What is it to "be Earnest," and what is the importance of doing so?
2. What do you think the author satirizes?
3. A theme that runs through this work is "dishonesty" on several levels. Identify 3 or 4 examples in the play.
4. What about this play is realistic? What is not?
5 .Do the characters exemplify society? If so, how?
6. Is Algernon or Jack more likable? - Why? - Why is the other less likable? -
7. What are some words you would use to describe Algernon? How would you describe Jack?
8. Why do you think Algernon and Jack are friends? What is their friendship like?
9. How are Gwendolen and Cecily alike? How are they different?
10. How would you describe the character of Lady Bracknell? How is she used to satirize the upper class?
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Pato
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1- To be Earnest means, in the book to be someone honest, to be a loyal person and to be treated like one. And the importance in to "be Earnest" in the book would be to leave the double life that Jack and Algernon are living and to start normal one according to that time, that would be getting married and making a family.
2- What the auhor makes a zatire of is the way high society people used to live, a way of living in which the most important matters of life were money and social position. It also kind of made fun about how women were treated like, silly and useless, and how important it was for them to get maried to a wealthy man.
3- One very clear example of dishonesty is how Jack and Algernon changed their names, one in the city and the other in the country, so that they could live a different life. Another case would be how this same characters invented that they had a sick family member of friend, who the had to visit. Another very silly lie is when Algernon tells his aunt
Lady Bracknell that there were no cucumbers in the market, and that was the reason why he coul not offer cucumber sandwiches to her; just because he hd eaten them all.
4- I think that it could be a realistic play, because of the matters it reffers to, like double life, marriage, etc. But what I think it's kind of exaggerated it the way Gwendolen and Cecily behaved towards Jack and Algernon, a very silly and childish way.
5- Yes, the characters that mostly exemplified in the book society were Algernon and Jack, leading he life of a typical single man and also Lady Bracknell, behaving as a high society woman who wants her daughter to marry the perfect man, according to her.
6- I think Jack is more likable, because he was a bit more honest than Algernon, in debts matter.
7- Algernon: dishonest, cheater and friendly.
Jack: good person, cheater and witty.
8- I think they are friends mainly because they have a lot of things in common, they both lead a double life and also have interests in getting married to someone related to the other one.
9- They are alike because they both love the name Earnest and want to get married to someone called that way. But they differ because Gwendolen is much more childish than Cecily, mainly because she is much younger than Cecily is.
10- I would describe her as an arrogant person. She shows a kind of person of the high society that only cares about money facts and shows dislikness towards different people, for e.g. towards Jack because he does not know who his parents are and because of that she would not let him marry her daughter.
Marina G.
1. To be Earnest is to be sincere, and honest with ourselves and others. The importante of these is that you are more likely to be accepted as a good person. And specially in the book, being earnest means leaving behind the double life that the characters lead to prepare themselves for another kind of life, like getting married.
2. The autor satirizes the Victorian society of that times in which wealth and economical position were very important. And it satirizes the way that women were seen too.
3. -When Algy tells his aunt that there were not cucumbers in the market.
-The double life the main characters had.
-How the main characters lied about their names.
-When Algy introduces himself as Jack´s brother.
4. This play is realistic about some things of the Victorian society. Men used to have double life, weddings were arranged, ladies only hope was to get married, wealth defined who you were. What I think is not true is the way that Cecily and Gwendolen behaved, it is imposible for someone to be so shallow.
5. The characters exemplify society by their thoughts and dialoges. I think that all of them play an important role in telling us something about that time, but I also think that they do so in a very exagerated way.
6. I think Jack is more likeable because he is the first to realise that he has to change and in the play he didn´t do so many dishonest and extreme things as Algy.
7. Algy: he loves to have a good time and do whatever he wants without caring what peolpe said. – Dishonest, player, cheater, witty.
Jack: He cares more about what people think and he is determined to leave his double life behind for Gwendolen. – Considerate, willing.
8.I think they are friends because probably they have met in a place they both liked and also they had many things in common. Perhaps they had been friends for a long time but for me that is no likeable because Algy would have known about Cecily,for example. I think they have a friendship that consists basically in going out to dinner and that kind of things.
9.They are alike because they both are always thinking who they will marry and such dreamy things. And also they are alike in the fact they both love the name Earnest. They are different in few aspects like age and were they had been raised.
10. Lady Bracknell satirizes a typical woman of the upper class because she only cared about apearance and social prestige. Her main preocupation is who her daughter is going to married and the economical profit this is going to bring her.
María C.
1. What is it to "be Earnest," and what is the importance of doing so?
To be earnest is to be serious, sincere about something. The importance of being Earnest in this play is having a double life, having the name of Ernest would give Jack and Algernon the opportunity of marrying the woman they want.
2. What do you think the author satirizes (ridiculiza mucho) ?
What the auhor makes a zatire is the life people had in those times. Especially their economical position in society and the way they were seen.
3. A theme that runs through this work is "dishonesty" on several levels. Identify 3 or 4 examples in the play.
-Dishonesty in the play can be seen at first when Jack lies about having a brother of the name Ernest who lived in town.
-Another part of the play where we can see dishonesty is when Algernon told her aunt, Lady Bracknell, that they were not more cucumber sandwiches in the store when he was the one that ate all of them.
-Dishonesty in the play can also be seen when Algernon goes to the country telling everybody he was Jack’s brother, Ernest.
-Another situation where we can see dishonesty in the play is when Algernon lies her Aunt Augusta about having a friend called Bunbury who lived in the country and was invalid.
4. What about this play is realistic? What is not? In my opinion this play could be realistic because in real life I think someone could pretend being another person without anyone knowing it.
Apart from that, I also think it’s not realistic because in some parts of the play the characters are more than stupid. For me, a person can’t be so stupid as Cecily is, when she imagines all her life, she creates a world that never had happened. (Besides this, it was funny).
5 .Do the characters exemplify society? If so, how? For me, the characters exemplify society in the way that a big number of people in the world are sometimes dishonest.
6. Is Algernon or Jack more likable? - Why? - Why is the other less likable? – For me, between Jack and Algernon, the more likable in the play was Jack because he seemed to be more sincere and lovely than Algernon. I think Algernon is less likable because he was a person who always wanted to break the rules of society.
7. What are some words you would use to describe Algernon? How would you describe Jack? The words I would use to describe Algernon are: Lier, irresponsible, hungry person, humorous, dishonest.
Jack was a sincere, serious, responsible person. He was a lier too..
8. Why do you think Algernon and Jack are friends? What is their friendship like? I think Jack and Algernon are friends because they had something in common they don’t realize ( bunburing, being relatives), but especially because both had a double life. Their relationship developed in the town when Jack goes to London pretending he was another person, Ernest. In that way I would say their friendship wasn’t sincere.
9. How are Gwendolen and Cecily alike? How are they different? Both, Gwendolen and Cecily, are in love with a man of the name Ernest. They are both in love with them only because of their names.
They are different in the way that Gwendolen isn’t as stupid and unrealistic as Cecily is.
10. How would you describe the character of Lady Bracknell? How is she used to satirize the upper class? Lady Bracknell was the typical mother of those times. She wanted to decide with whom his daughter Gwendolen was going to marry. She couldn’t lead her daughter marry with a man who didn’t know his origins, she couldn’t stand that.
MANESH.
1.What is it to "be Earnest," and what is the importance of doing so?
To be earnest means to be honest and to say the truth at all times, to everybody and ourselves. In the book, this importance would be to leave behind the double life lead by Jack an Algernon and to settle down, get married and loyal to one lady.
2. What do you think the author satirizes?
I belive the author satirizes the Victorian society and the way wealthy people lived. He criticises them for being kind of silly and not worring about important matters. And mostly, he critices the sillyness of women and how they were seen by society.
3. A theme that runs through this work is "dishonesty" on several levels. Identify 3 or 4 examples in the play.
- When Jack says he has a brother in the city.
- When Allgy says he has an ill friend in the country-side.
- When Jack and Allgy intoduce themselves as Earnest
4. What about this play is realistic? What is not?
It is reallystic how wealthy people behave, how marriage was arrenged, how ladies only lived for marriage and how men leaded a double life and weren´t faithfull to anybody but them. It is not reallistic in my opinion the extremely sillyness that most of the character represent.
5 .Do the characters exemplify society? If so, how?
They absolutely do. They represent the way wealthy people lived. It also represents they way marriage was arrenged by parents or relatives in order to continue to be rich and powerfull. Apart from the way people didn´t care about important things and lived in their own world, out of real life.
6. Is Algernon or Jack more likable? - Why? - Why is the other less likable? –
I believe Jack is more likable beacuse he doesn´t know who his parents are and taht makes him more sweet and kind of inocent.
7. What are some words you would use to describe Algernon? How would you describe Jack?
I believe Allgy is the kind of men that plays arround all the time and don´t care at all about being carefull with money. It seems that he does´t care about women feelings and aonly lives for parties. Until he find Cecily and discovers he is capable of loving.
In my view, Jack is sweet and tender. It seems that he is deply in love with Gwendolyn. But I don´t think he is raliable or faithfull at all. It looks like he only care about his own wlell.
8. Why do you think Algernon and Jack are friends? What is their friendship like?
I think they are friends because they are extremely similar. The same thing move their acts and they lead the same kind of life. Eventhough they don´t know the otherone do the same until nearly the end of the play, this unite them in an unexplicative way. It looks like their friendship is not very deep or strong. They are more like partypartners than real friends
9. How are Gwendolen and Cecily alike? How are they different?
They are similar in the way that they are both really silly and the only motivation of their life is to find someone and get married. They are not very intelligent in the way they act towards men, since they believe everything they are told, even if this isn´t true. They are both very superficial, since they only love their man because they are named Earnest. They are different only beacuse one was raised up in the country side and the other in the city.
10. How would you describe the character of Lady Bracknell? How is she used to satirize the upper class?
I believe she used to satirize the upper class because she is the arrogan kind of person that only cares about social prestige and money. Her main porpuse it to marry her daughter and her nephyew with rich people.
1. To be earnest means to be sincere, honest; and this is very important in one person´s life because is one of the things that make you a better person and in the end is good for you, because sooner or later lies are discovered.
2. In my opinion the author want to satirizes the relationship between the name Earnest and meaning of the word earnest. He creates a man called Earnest that is really a liar, that suffer the consequences of those lies.
3. º The bunburing of the two principal characters
ºWhen Algernon lies to her aunt about the cucumber sandwiches
º When Algernon presents himself as Jack´s brother, and the entire situation in which they pretend to be so.
4. I believe this play could be realistic according to the customs that are showed, such as unfaithfulness in marriage, the economic aspect being essential in society or parents being so strict as regards their daughter´s marriage. But what I don’t find realistic is the fact that they talk so senseless in many occasions, which is definitely one of the things Wilde wanted to satirize.
5. I think the characters represents society in the way that each of them is showing how different kinds of people would act and react; specially how the different social classes used to work, which is in some way similar to nawadays´society.
6. I think Algernon was more likely than Jack because of his gregarious and friendly personality, and his ability to give a good impression although he was sometimes been dishonest.
7. Algy: gregarious, talkative, self-confident, materialistic, very friendly, humorous and sometimes dishonest.
Jack: reliable, witty, polite, cautios, sensitive, modest, kind but in some occasions dishonest.
8. Jack and Algernon are friends mainly because they share many things and they also have interests that include the other´s influence, such as their love for Cecily and Gwendolen. Even though, their relationship is not completely honest.
9. They both are sophisticated and pretty young ladies, but the main thing they share is the peculiar fascination for the name Earnest, which they both love and want to marry someone called that way. But the difference is in the way they act most of the time: Cecily, because of her age, is much more childish and dramatic than Gwendolen, who is a bit more realistic.
10. The author uses this character to satirize the upper class, in the way that she is extremely arrogant and vain. Her goal is to find the perfect candidate for her daughter, who will give a good reputation for her and her family.
1) To be earnest is to be sincere. It is important not to get into trouble.
2) Wilde satirizes victorian society and its manners and usages.
3) - Bunburying is one example...
- When Algernon makes - esteban´s character I dont remember his name - say there where no cucumbers in the market.
- When Jack and Algernon meet in Jack´s house.
- When Jack says Ernest had died of a severe chill.
4) Dishonesty that runs in society is the real, the magnitude of the silliness of the characters´ comments are not.
5) As I just said, with dishonesty.
6) Jack is more likely, Algernon is rude.
7) Algernon: rude, liar, ower...
Jack: a bit less of a liar, respectful.
8) They are friends for convinience, their friendship is a whole lye.
9) They are both silly, but i dont find any difference.(Gwendolen is more attractive ;D)
10) She thinks in nothing but money, she represent upper class by the relationship she wants to establish between Gwendolen and a rich man.
11) Zarpada guia.
Sebastian
1-To be earnest means to be honest, truthful and not to lie to solves things in an easy way. In the book Algernon and Jack were living a double life, that it's not being earnest.
2- It talks about the victorian times in a funny way showing how stupid women were seen and how the servants were treated in comparison of the rich people.
3- 1-when Jack said that his name was Earnest
2-Whn Algernon says that he has a friend calles Bunbury
3- When Jack said that he had a brother and that he had died when he didn't even have a brother
4- It can be realistic, because people lived like that in that time but it's unreal the way the characters reacts in some situations.
5- Yes. They show how money was the only important thing in society and how they arranged marriage just to get more money. They are always talking about stupid things and imagine the Victorian times just like that
6-I think that Jack is more likeable because I see him as a serious man and more reliable than Algernon.
I see algernon as a lazy man that likes to brake the law in many cases and he was also a lier.
7-Jack: Serious, Polite, Lier, Responsible.
Algernon: Lier, law-braker, thief, gregarious.
8- They are friends because they are sharing the same lie and they were helping each other to reach the same purpose. (Make Cecily/Gwendoleen love them)
9- They both are kind of stupid girls that wanted to marry them just for their names (Earnest). They always believed every silly word that Jack and Algy told them.
Cecily is younger and she is always imagining stupid things and Gwendollen it's a bit more mature.
10-Lady Bracknell was always paying attention to the minimum detail just to conserve the family prestige. She was really interested in money and she didn't wat to let Gwendollen marry Jack because he didn't know who his parents were.
Juanma
1- Being earnest means behaving seriously with depth and sincerity. It is important to act like that in life because that is the way you can reach what you want, if not being dishonest is a way of cheating. It makes you a better and reliable person.
2- Satire is defined as the usage of humor to ridicule errors and faults. I think that in the play, what Oscar Wilde is trying to satire is the social system of the Victorian period. What it seems to be much more satirized all through the play is the ladies and how they act and think, especially Cecily.
3- Well, one example that comes to my mind is the double life that Algernon and Jack lead. They have like a kind of mask that enables them to go to the town/country whenever they want, using another name (mask). I interpret it as a way of evading responsibility.
Another demonstration can be Miss Prism when she loses the child and escapes.
Also when Algernon lies about the cucumber sandwiches.
4- I believe that what is realistic in the play is the fact that people sometimes use masks to protect themselves and become free from responsibilities. And what is not realistic, is the topics of conversation, mainly how they talk about different issues and the way they express themselves, which can be seen as quite silly. Same for Cecily and Gwendolen behaviors, absolutely irealistic.
5- I think that the characters exemplify society in times of the Victorian Period. If not, the play wouldn’t be a satire to the Victorian period.
6- I think that Algernon is more likeable, in the way he expresses himself. Also in the movie I find him quite funny with his stupid comments and the way he sneaks into the other house in the countryside. And Jack is less likeable for me as he is always trying to discover his real identity, so he is more concentrated on that. Algernon plays this “Bunburying” game much more relaxed than his friend Jack.
7- Algernon can be described as selfish, dishonest (leading this double life) , and also as it says in some part of the play , he can be labeled as charming. Jack, on the other hand is an adopted man, he can be described as more serious than Algy.
8- I think that they are friends just for convenience. They are alike in the way that they have double identities. They also share interests for the girls.
9- Cecily is more childish than Gwendolen, due to the fact that she was younger. But they shared the fascination for the name Earnest. They are two young ladies obsessed with the idea of marrying someone named by Earnest.
10- I think that Lady Bracknell is presented as the arrogant, lady from the upper class of the society. She was married good, and wanted her daughter to do the same as her. Marrying with a wealthy man, and that’s why she is so frustrated to get to know that Jack is adopted. Money was the important thing for her.
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1. What is it to "be Earnest," and what is the importance of doing so?
What I could get about what Earnest means is to be honest, loyal. We can see that in the book where the fact is having a double life, like having the name of Ernest gives Jack and Algernon the chance of marrying the woman they choose to marry.
2. What do you think the author satirizes?
In my opinion what the author wants to satirize is the victorian society, because as manesh said economical problems were the most important for them. He satirize the way the characters matters about silly problems instead of worrying about important problems.
3. A theme that runs through this work is "dishonesty" on several levels. Identify 3 or 4 examples in the play.
-When Jack says he has a brother in the city.
-The double life the main characters has.
- And the way the main characters lied about their identity.
4. What about this play is realistic? What is not?
It can be considerated as an realistic play because they are problems or tipical themes be can see nowadays in life, like marriage, double life. But some characters behave in a silly way and it's like It seems to be that they are too old to behave in that way.
5 .Do the characters exemplify society? If so, how?
Yes I consider that the characters exemplify something or tries to say the reader something, to tell us something about society in that times. They do that by their dialogues, most of the times.
6. Is Algernon or Jack more likable? - Why? - Why is the other less likable? -
Is Algernon or Jack more likable? - Why? - Why is the other less likable? –
In my opinion, the more likable in the play was Jack because he seemed to be more kind and honest with what he says than Algernon was.
Algernon was a person who Wants to do what the other people doesn't want to do.
7. What are some words you would use to describe Algernon? How would you describe Jack?
I would describe Allgy like a humorous but ungry and dishonest person. He always want to do whatever he wants without careing about other people.
8. Why do you think Algernon and Jack are friends? What is their friendship like?
I think Allgy and Jack are good friends because they have a lot in common, it can be, perhaps. But, as Mary C said, it has a lo to do that they only go out to have dinner together and all that.
9. How are Gwendolen and Cecily alike? How are they different?
I think the only thing Gwendolen and Cecily has in common is that they are both very silly people, they believe everything they are said. They have in common that as someone said that both have good times together is not like a stong friendship.
10. How would you describe the character of Lady Bracknell? How is she used to satirize the upper class?
Lady Bracknell the only thing she cares about it is MONEY. We can notice that very clearly because the only thing she want to do is to marry her daughter and her nephew with rich people.
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MARY RL
1) To be earnest is to be honest, sincere, and it means in the book to be accepted as a trustful person.
2) The autor satirizes the society of that times, especially in appearence and relationships
3) Some examples may be, that both Algy and Jack have a double life, another one that both "kill" their double life with more lies, and when jack tells Lady Bracknell that there weren't any cucumbers.
4) I believe the hole story could be real, but i don't think that some people like the girls would behave in that way.
5)Yes, it reflects society in the way they think, in the way they behave
6)I think Jack is more likable, cause he does not interfear in the lives of others
7) Algy: dishonest, untrustful, selfish, but friendly
Jack: dishonest, responsable
8) They have some things in common, and besides each one wants to marry someone of the other family
9)They both like the name Earnest and they both think in a similar way. But the main difference is that cecily is younger and maybe behaves in another way
10) She's an arrogant person, who only cares about appearence and money.
1. What is it to "be Earnest," and what is the importance of doing so?
To be Earnest it to be honest and sicere, and to act in a correct way. In the book, Allgy and Jack were living a double life so they were not behaving well. But they change their attitude (as regards living a double life) towards the end of the book.
2. What do you think the author satirizes?
I think the author satirizes the aristocracy of Victorian Times, and the nonsence way in which they used to act.
3. A theme that runs through this work is "dishonesty" on several levels. Identify 3 or 4 examples in the play.
One example of dishonesty is bunberrying, when Algy pretends to go to the country to help his ill friend he doesn´t really have.
Another example of it is when Jack, not wanting to pretend anymore having a brother in the city, lies saying he had died.
Another one is when Algy's servant, Lane, tells Algy's aunt, Augusta, that there where no cucumbers at the market when the truth was he had eaten all of them.
4. What about this play is realistic? What is not?
The play is realistic because it represents the way in which people used to behave at that times (superficially, dishonestly, etc.) but it also has some moments when people behave exagerately dumb and it's very funny.
5 .Do the characters exemplify society? If so, how?
Yes, I think they do because it shows how they used to live. It shows how the marriages were arranged, how superficially and dishonest they were, and how people at that times were educated and they way of thinking people used to have.
6. Is Algernon or Jack more likable? - Why? - Why is the other less likable? -
I think both of them are likeable. I found them both adorable and really funny, though I think Jack was kind of more honest because he wants to kill "his brtother".
7. What are some words you would use to describe Algernon? How would you describe Jack?
I would describe Algernon as a very funny and friendly person, he was also a bit rude though (when he eats the muffins), but he was so funy... And he was always doing and saying stupid things.
I would also describe Jack as a funny and friendly person but more respectful and a bit more responsable.
8. Why do you think Algernon and Jack are friends? What is their friendship like?
I think they are friends because they are both living a double life and have fun doing that. Also because they have a good time with each other.
I would describe their friendship as a funny one, and although they are not honest with each other in every aspect, they tell they other what they really think about him or his actions.
9. How are Gwendolen and Cecily alike? How are they different?
Cecili and Gwendolen are alike because both are kind of stupid and say certain things and then do exactly the opposite and are like silly and very easy to convince when having to forgive Algy and Jack. They both had the silly ideal of marrying someone called Ernest and wanted to marry Jack and Algy because they pretended to have been called like that.
They are different beacuse Cecily is more innocent than Gwendolen that is kind of revel.
10. How would you describe the character of Lady Bracknell? How is she used to satirize the upper class?
I think she was used to satirize the upper class beacuse she was all the time worrying about appearances and getting her daughter married with a wealthy man.
Esteban:
Nice contributions, though some were a bit short ;)
Careful with silly spelling and vocabulary mistakes, those could lower your mark, which would be a real shame. Please, always check before you post your comment.
Delfi:
Nice aswers!! Be careful with some vocabulary and spelling mistakes, though.
MARINA:
Great contributions, be careful with spelling and vocabulary mistakes. Always check before you post!!
Maria C.:
Excellent ideas, a few mistakes. BRAVO!
Manesh:
Nice answers and ideas!!! But next time make sure to check spelling and be careful not to mix up TENSES.
Mecha:
Really great ideas!! There were a few silly mistakes, try to check before posting next time; because it would be a pitty to lower your mark for those little errors.
Ingrid:
Nice answers!!!! Very good. But next time make sure to check spelling and be careful not to mix up TENSES.
Sebastian:
Good answers, but some sentences were a bit too short. And I DID say to answer the questions with at least ONE FULL SENTENCE, didn't I? Answer nº11, is totally out of place, young man!!! ;)
Juanma:
Great answers! There were a few silly mistakes, try to check before posting next time; because it would be a pitty to lower your mark for those little errors
Fede:
Excellent contributions, be careful though of some spelling mistakes.
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Mary RL:
But next time make sure to check spelling and be careful not to mix up TENSES.
1) To be Earnest is to be someone honest, sincere and loyal. The importance of doing so in the book is that they have to be "loyal, sincere and honest" in order to marry the two girls.
2)the author satirizes the society of that time. Specially the wealthy families
3)- Bunberrying. Algy pretends to have an invalid friend in orther to go to the country.
- When Jack said that his name was Earnest
- When Jack pretended to have a brother
4)In my opinion, something realistic can be the way wealthy people behave, and how they always try to be educated and never rude.
Something unrealistic for me is that sometimes it was obvious that someone was lying and noone would notice it. For example when Algy told Aung Augusta that Bunbury had died.
5)Yes. They showed how money was the most important thing at that time, and also that the marrigies where arranged by the gilrs parents.
6)the most likeable was Jack. Algy was more dishonest and disloyal. He did only what HE wanted to do.
7)Algy was disloyal as i said, rude liar. Jack was more reliable, better person, liar also.
8)Because they shared interest for the girls and in orther the other not to tell everyone about their double identity. They didn't look like friends.
9)Both stupid. They believed everything that Algy or Jack would tell them.
10)Lady Bracknell satirizes the upper class. She only wanted the girls to marry a wealthy man in orther to keep the family in the upper class.
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1. What is it to "be Earnest," and what is the importance of doing so?
To be Earnest is to be honest and to tell the truth. Jack and Algy are dishonest and travell to escape from their normal lifes with false arguments (a brother or a friend)
2. What do you think the author satirizes?
I think the author satirizes how people lives in Victorian times.
3. A theme that runs through this work is "dishonesty" on several levels. Identify 3 or 4 examples in the play.
- When Gwendolen and Cecily tell each other they like the other when they first met.
- When Jack says his name is Ernest.
- When Algernon says he has an invalid friend in the country.
4. What about this play is realistic? What is not?
What is realistic is how dishonest and superficially were people in those days. What is not is the extremely silly things they do.
5 .Do the characters exemplify society? If so, how?
Yes, they show how apparences, money, linage and marriage was soooo important in those times.
6. Is Algernon or Jack more likable? - Why? - Why is the other less likable? -
I think Jack is more likeable because he is nicer and a bit more responsible (he wants to kill Ernest).
7. What are some words you would use to describe Algernon? How would you describe Jack?
Jack is nice and funny and more responsible than Algy, but he is also a lier.
Algernon is very very funny, he does and says silly things.
8. Why do you think Algernon and Jack are friends? What is their friendship like?
I think they are friends because they play the same kind of game (bunburrying).
Their friendship is very funny and a bit strange.
9. How are Gwendolen and Cecily alike? How are they different?
10. How would you describe the character of Lady Bracknell? How is she used to satirize the upper class?
They are similar because they both are superficial and want to marry someone only because his name is Ernest.
They are different because Cecily is more stupid, childish and imaginative than Gwendolen.
Lady Bracknell is very sophisticated, she is interested in money a lot! and cares a lot about appearences, she also wants her daughter to marry a wealthy man.
She is used to satirize the upper class because people at that times were like her.
Well, it seems 5th year did a great job with The Importance of Being Earnest. Did you enjoy the play? I am glad you were able to become acquainted with Wilde's unique humour and artistry with words... and with the depth of meaning and criticism and satire that lie behind them.
Yes, I enjoyed the play, I think it's quite funny because of all the "bunburists". Wilde's humor is quite strange for us and some times we have to read 2 times to understand but it's great
Its good
I really enjoyed the play because I am a fan of th Victorian times- specially the way women dressed up. But mostly I like ir since it remembers me to the play "El Avaro" by Mollier. I enjoyed them both for the way the writers criticize society and make it sound funny.
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