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The importance of being earnest
• full title · The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy
for Serious People
• type of work · Play
• genre · Social comedy; comedy of manners; satire; intellectual
farce
• time and place written · Summer 1894 in Worthing, England
• date of first production · February 14, 1895. In part because
of Wilde’s disgrace, the play was not published until 1899.
• publisher · L. Smithers
• tone · Light, scintillating, effervescent, deceptively flippant
• setting (time) · 1890s
• setting (place) · London (Act I) and Hertfordshire, a rural
county not far from London (Acts II and III)
KEY FACTS
PLOT
• Jack Worthing is a rich and refined young man who lives in the
country, but when he comes to London he uses the name
Ernest. He’s in love with Gwendolen, his friend Algernon
Montcrieff’s cousin. He proposes to her and she accepts
because she has always wanted to marry someone by the
name of Ernest. The girl’s mother, Lady Bracknell, is at first
happy about the match, until sha discovers that Jack does not
know who his parents are.
• In the second act, the scene is set in Jack’s country house.
Algernon arrives and, hoping to find out his friend’s secrets,
introduces himself as Ernest, Jack’s supposed wiked elder
brother. He meets Cecily, Jack’s ward, and between them it is
love at first sight.
• But Cecily and Gwendolen meet each other in the temporary
absence of the two men, each indignantly insists that she is
the one engaged to "Ernest". When Jack and Algernon
reappear, their deceptions are exposed. When the men
explain themselves, they are forgiven, and the women agree
not to break off the engagements when each man announces
his intention to be re-christened.
• Then Lady Bracknell arrives and again forbids Gwendolen to
marry Jack. There seems to be no way out of this, but Lady
Bracknell unexpectedly recognizes Miss Prism, Cecily’s
governess: she had been her dead sister’s governess, and had,
years before, disappeared with this sister’s baby. Miss Prism
confesses that she had accidentally put the baby in a handbag
which she had than left in Victoria station.
The importance of being earnest
• On hearing this, Jack, startled,
leaves the room and comes
back with the handbag in
which he had been found as a
baby. It is the same bag, Miss
Prism is sure. He is the baby
she lost, and since that baby
was Lady Bracknell’s sister’s
son, it turns out that Jack is
her nephew, and Algernon’s
brother. Upon farther enquiry,
moreover, it is found out that
his original name was indeed
Ernest. All is well, in the end,
and the two couples can
finally marry.
SUMMARY
• protagonist · John Worthing, known as “Ernest” by his friends in town (i.e.,
London) and as “Jack” by his friends and relations in the country
• major conflict · Jack faces many obstacles to his romantic union with
Gwendolen. One obstacle is presented by Lady Bracknell (Gwendolen’s
Mother), who objects to what she refers to as Jack’s “origins” (i.e. his
inability to define his family background). Another obstacle is Gwendolen’s
obsession with the name “Ernest,” since she does not know Jack’s real
name.
• rising action · Algernon ( Jack’s friend in town) discovers that Jack is leading
a double life and that he has a pretty young ward named Cecily. The
revelation of Jack’s origins causes Lady Bracknell to forbid his union with
Gwendolen. Identifying himself as “Ernest,” Algernon visits Jack’s house in
the country and falls in love with Cecily.
• climax · Gwendolen and Cecily discover that both Jack and Algernon have
been lying to them and that neither is really named “Ernest.”
• falling action · Miss Prism is revealed to be the governess who mistakenly
abandoned Jack as a baby and Jack is discovered to be Algernon’s elder
brother, and is in actual fact named Earnest.
THE TITLE
• The italian edition of the Wilde’s
commedy has a serius translation
problem. The original title, infact,
uses a impossible word’s joke to
translate between the adjective
“earnest” ( that means onest,
serius) and the name Ernest, that
in english have the same
pronunciation.
• So the contrast in this work is the
fact that even both declare to be
Ernest, nobody is really earnest
with his lover.
ERNEST / EARNEST:
• Homophone: one of a group of words
pronounced in the same way but differing in
meaning or spelling or both.
ERNEST :
• Jack’s Alter ego in the city
• Jack’s imaginary younger brother
• Cecily’s fantasy fiancé
• Gwen’s love interest
• Algy’s adopted persona in Act 2
• Jack’s real name!
EARNEST:
• serious in intention, purpose, or effort;
sincerely zealous: an earnest worker.
• showing depth and sincerity of feeling:
earnest words; an earnest entreaty.
THE TITLE IS THE FIRST JOKE!
• Earnestness can take many
forms in the play, including
being boring, solemn,
pompous, complacent, smug,
self-righteous, and having a
sense of duty, all of which
Wilde saw as hallmarks of the
Victorian character.
• The earnestness of Victorian society impels
Algernon and Jack to invent fictitious alter egos
so they can escape the restrictions of decorum
and decency.
• As you read the play, ask yourself who, if
anyone, is ‘earnest’ (and does Wilde suggest
that it IS important to be so?)!
Analysing a Play
Play
Plot
characters
Language Context
Themes
Settings
Stage craft
Genre &
style
PLOT (STRUCTURE)
STRUCTURE
Basic structure:
Order-chaos-order
There is a resolution
and a concluion-but
there is still a little
disorder in the
resolution
Comic timings
Happy ending
Dramatic irony
Follows the
conventions of
romantic comedy
Entrances
and exits
Farcical structure
Comedy of manners
MAIN CHARACTERS
JACK
WORTHING
ALGERNON
MONCRIEFF
LADY
BRACKNELL
CECILY
CARDEW
GWENDOLYN
FAIRFAX
DR. CHASUBLE
MISS PRISM
CHARACTERS
deceptive
Hopeless romantics
immoral
Concerned about
morals and manners
farcical
Comic servants
superficial
strict
Ironic/hypocritical
Hyperbolic
characters
comic
trivial
stereotypical
Butler and cad
satirical
artificial
ridiculous
CHARACTER STUDIES
•What they say
•What they do
•What others say about them
•What others do to them
(or in response to them)
RELATIONSHIPS
The importance of being earnest
SETTINGS (& STAGING)
CONTEXT
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
LANGUAGE (DIALOGUE)
•Witty
•Wildean Epigrams
•Inverted expectations
•‘Nonsense’ & paradox
•Intertextual echoes
•Hyperbole
•Dramatic Irony
"The real charm of the play, if it is to have charm, must be in the dialogue“
Wilde
WILDES TECHNIQUE
• Wilde’s sparkling with abouns in irony, sarcasm, nonsense,
puns, paradoxes. The humor derives from what the
characters say and how thay say it.
• This is Wilde’s technique of contraries: to treat “all the
seriuos things of life with sincere and studied triviality”. His
characters say the most
irrelevant and absurd things
as if they were talking
common sense, but the
extreme and slightly absurd
situations of the play also
expose the superficiality of the
English upper class and the
shallowness of their lives.
SOME OF WILDE’S BETTER
KNOWN EPIGRAMS
I never travel without my diary.
One should always have something sensational to read
in the train.
The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Education is an admirable thing,
but it is as well to remember that nothing that is worth
knowing can be taught.
Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being
talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on;
it is never of any use to oneself.
The difference between literature and journalism is
that journalism is unreadable and literature is not
read.
A woman begins by resisting a man's advances and
ends by blocking his retreat.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others
whenever they go.
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. [His final words.]
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously
about.
GENRE & STYLE
‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’
•Intellectual Farce
•Comedy of Manners
•Romantic comedy
•Satire
ROMANTIC
COMEDY
COMEDYOF
MANNERS
THEMES, MOTIFS & SYMBOLS
• THEMES ·Victorian Social Issues. The
nature of marriage; the constraints of
morality; hypocrisy vs. inventiveness; the
importance of not being “earnest”.
• MOTIFS · Puns; inversion; death; the dandy
• SYMBOLS · The double life; food; fiction
and writing
THEMES CONTINUED
•Lies, fantasy, deceit & morality
•Love, romance & marriage
•Respectability & social
conventions
•Class & wealth
•Gender
•Foolishness & folly
THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE
TEXT.
MARRIAGE
• is of paramount importance in The Importance of Being Earnest, both as a primary
force motivating the plot and as a subject for philosophical speculation and debate.
The question of the nature of marriage appears for the first time in the opening
dialogue between Algernon and his butler, Lane, and from this point on the subject
never disappears for very long. Algernon and Jack discuss the nature of marriage
when they dispute briefly about whether a marriage proposal is a matter of
“business” or “pleasure,” and Lady Bracknell touches on the issue when she states,
“An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant,
as the case may be.” Even Lady Bracknell's list of bachelors and the prepared
interview to which she subjects Jack are based on a set of assumptions about the
nature and purpose of marriage. In general, these assumptions reflect the
conventional preoccupations of Victorian respectability—social position, income,
and character.•
•
THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE
TEXT
MARRIAGE – cont
The play is actually an ongoing debate about the nature of marriage and whether it is
“pleasant or unpleasant.” Lane remarks casually that he believes it to be “a very pleasant
state,” before admitting that his own marriage, now presumably ended, was the result of
“a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.” Algernon regards Lane's views
on marriage as “somewhat lax.” His own views are relentlessly cynical until he meets and
falls in love with Cecily. Jack, by contrast, speaks in the voice of the true romantic. He tells
Algernon, however, that the truth “isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet,
refined girl.” At the end of the play, Jack apologizes to Gwendolen when he realizes he
had been telling the truth all his life. She forgives him, she says, on the grounds that she
thinks he's sure to change, which suggests Gwendolen's own rather cynical view of the
nature of men and marriage.
THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE
TEXT cont
• The Constraints of Morality
• Morality and the constraints it imposes on society is a favorite topic of conversation in The
Importance of Being Earnest. Algernon thinks the servant class has a responsibility to set a
moral standard for the upper classes. Jack thinks reading a private cigarette case is
“ungentlemanly.” “More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't
read,” Algernon points out. These restrictions and assumptions suggest a strict code of
morals that exists in Victorian society, but Wilde isn't concerned with questions of what is
and isn't moral. Instead, he makes fun of the whole Victorian idea of morality as a rigid
body of rules about what people should and shouldn't do. The very title of the play is a
double-edged comment on the phenomenon. The play's central plot—the man who both
is and isn't Ernest/earnest—presents a moral paradox. Earnestness, which refers to both
the quality of being serious and the quality of being sincere, is the play's primary object of
satire. Characters such as Jack, Gwendolen, Miss Prism, and Dr. Chasuble, who put a
premium on sobriety and honesty, are either hypocrites or else have the rug pulled out
from under them. What Wilde wants us to see as truly moral is really the opposite of
earnestness: irreverence
THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE
TEXT cont
• Hypocrisy vs. Inventiveness
• Algernon and Jack may create similar deceptions, but they are not morally
equivalent characters. When Jack fabricates his brother Ernest's death, he imposes
that fantasy on his loved ones, and though we are aware of the deception, they, of
course, are not. He rounds out the deception with costumes and props, and he
does his best to convince the family he's in mourning. He is acting hypocritically. In
contrast, Algernon and Cecily make up elaborate stories that don't really assault
the truth in any serious way or try to alter anyone else's perception of reality. In a
sense, Algernon and Cecily are characters after Wilde's own heart, since in a way
they invent life for themselves as though life is a work of art. In some ways,
Algernon, not Jack, is the play's real hero. Not only is Algernon like Wilde in his
dandified, exquisite wit, tastes, and priorities, but he also resembles Wilde to the
extent that his fictions and inventions resemble those of an artist.
THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE
TEXT cont
• The Importance of Not Being “Ernest”
• Earnestness, which implies seriousness or sincerity, is the great enemy of morality in The
Importance of Being Earnest. Earnestness can take many forms, including boringness,
solemnity, pomposity, complacency, smugness, self-righteousness, and sense of duty, all of
which Wilde saw as hallmarks of the Victorian character. When characters in the play use the
word serious, they tend to mean “trivial,” and vice versa. For example, Algernon thinks it
“shallow” for people not to be “serious” about meals, and Gwendolen believes, “In matters
of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”
• For Wilde, the word earnest comprised two different but related ideas: the notion of false
truth and the notion of false morality, or moralism. The moralism of Victorian society—its
smugness and pomposity—impels Algernon and Jack to invent fictitious alter egos so as to be
able to escape the strictures of propriety and decency. However, what one member of
society considers decent or indecent doesn't always reflect what decency really is. One of the
play's paradoxes is the impossibility of actually being either earnest (meaning “serious” or
“sincere”) or moral while claiming to be so. The characters who embrace triviality and
wickedness are the ones who may have the greatest chance of attaining seriousness and
virtue.
MOTIFS -motifs are reoccurring structures, contrasts or literacy devices that can
help to develop and inform the text’s major themes
• Puns
• In The Importance of Being Earnest, the pun, widely considered to be the lowest form of verbal wit, is
rarely just a play on words. The pun in the title is a case in point. The earnest/Ernest joke strikes at the
very heart of Victorian notions of respectability and duty. Gwendolen wants to marry a man called Ernest,
and she doesn't care whether the man actually possesses the qualities that comprise earnestness. She is,
after all, quick to forgive Jack's deception. In embodying a man who is initially neither “earnest” nor
“Ernest,” and who, through forces beyond his control, subsequently becomes both “earnest” and “Ernest,”
Jack is a walking, breathing paradox and a complex symbol of Victorian hypocrisy.
• In Act III, when Lady Bracknell quips that until recently she had no idea there were any persons “whose
origin was a Terminus,” she too is making an extremely complicated pun. The joke is that a railway station
is as far back as Jack can trace his identity and therefore a railway station actually is his “origin,” hence
the pun. In Wilde's day, as in the England of today, the first stop on a railway line is known as the “origin”
and the last stop as the “terminus.” There's also a whole series of implicit subsidiary puns on words like
line and connection that can refer to either ancestry or travel. Wilde is poking fun at Lady Bracknell's
snobbery. He depicts her as incapable of distinguishing between a railway line and a family line, social
connections and railway connections, a person's ancestral origins and the place where he chanced to be
found. In general, puns add layers of meaning to the characters' lines and call into question the true or
intended meaning of what is being said.
MOTIFS - cont
• Inversion
• One of the most common motifs in The Importance of Being Earnest is the notion of
inversion, and inversion takes many forms. The play contains inversions of thought,
situation, and character, as well as inversions of common notions of morality or
philosophical thought. When Algernon remarks, “Divorces are made in Heaven,” he
inverts the cliché about marriages being “made in heaven.” Similarly, at the end of the
play, when Jack calls it “a terrible thing” for a man to discover that he's been telling the
truth all his life, he inverts conventional morality. Most of the women in the play
represent an inversion of accepted Victorian practices with regard to gender roles. Lady
Bracknell usurps the role of the father in interviewing Jack, since typically this was a
father's task, and Gwendolen and Cecily take charge of their own romantic lives, while
the men stand by watching in a relatively passive role. The trick that Wilde plays on
Miss Prism at the end of the play is also a kind of inversion: The trick projects onto the
play's most fervently moralistic character the image of the “fallen woman” of
melodrama.
MOTIFS - cont
• Death
• Jokes about death appear frequently in The Importance of Being Earnest. Lady Bracknell
comes onstage talking about death, and in one of the play's many inversions, she says her
friend Lady Harbury looks twenty years younger since the death of her husband. With
respect to Bunbury, she suggests that death is an inconvenience for others—she says
Bunbury is “shilly-shallying” over whether “to live or to die.” On being told in Act III that
Bunbury has died suddenly in accordance with his physicians' predictions, Lady Bracknell
commends Bunbury for acting “under proper medical advice.” Miss Prism speaks as
though death were something from which one could learn a moral lesson and piously says
she hopes Ernest will profit from having died. Jack and Algernon have several
conversations about how to “kill” Jack's imaginary brother. Besides giving the play a layer
of dark humor, the death jokes also connect to the idea of life being a work of art. Most of
the characters discuss death as something over which a person actually has control, as
though death is a final decision one can make about how to shape and color one's life.
MOTIFS - cont
• The Dandy
• To the form of Victorian melodrama, Wilde contributed the figure of the dandy, a character
who gave the form a moral texture it had never before possessed. In Wilde's works, the
dandy is a witty, overdressed, self-styled philosopher who speaks in epigrams and
paradoxes and ridicules the cant and hypocrisy of society's moral arbiters. To a very large
extent, this figure was a self-portrait, a stand-in for Wilde himself. The dandy isn't always a
comic figure in Wilde's work. In A Woman of No Importance and The Picture of Dorian
Gray, he takes the form of the villains Lord Illingworth and Lord Henry Wootton,
respectively. But in works such as Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and The
Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde seems to be evolving a more positive and clearly
defined moral position on the figure of the dandy. The dandy pretends to be all about
surface, which makes him seem trivial, shallow, and ineffectual. Lord Darlington and Lord
Goring (in Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband) both present themselves this
way. In fact, the dandy in both plays turns out to be something very close to the real hero.
He proves to be deeply moral and essential to the happy resolution of the plot.
• In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon has many characteristics of the dandy,
but he remains morally neutral throughout the play. Many other characters also
express dandiacal sentiments and views. Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell are being
dandiacal when they assert the importance of surfaces, style, or “profile,” and even
Jack echoes the philosophy of the dandy when he comes onstage asserting that
“pleasure” is the only thing that should “bring one anywhere.” For the most part,
these utterances seem to be part of Wilde's general lampooning of the superficiality
of the upper classes. The point is that it's the wrong sort of superficiality because it
doesn't recognize and applaud its own triviality. In fact, Cecily, with her impatience
with self-improvement and conventional morality and her curiosity about
“wickedness,” is arguably the character who, after Algernon, most closely resembles
the dandy. Her dandiacal qualities make her a perfect match for him.
SYMBOLS – are objects, characters figures or colours used to represent
abstract ideas or concepts
• The Double Life
• The double life is the central metaphor in the play, epitomized in the notion of “Bunbury” or
“Bunburying.” As defined by Algernon, Bunburying is the practice of creating an elaborate
deception that allows one to misbehave while seeming to uphold the very highest standards
of duty and responsibility. Jack's imaginary, wayward brother Ernest is a device not only for
escaping social and moral obligations but also one that allows Jack to appear far more moral
and responsible than he actually is. Similarly, Algernon's imaginary invalid friend Bunbury
allows Algernon to escape to the country, where he presumably imposes on people who
don't know him in much the same way he imposes on Cecily in the play, all the while
seeming to demonstrate Christian charity. The practice of visiting the poor and the sick was a
staple activity among the Victorian upper and upper-middle classes and considered a public
duty. The difference between what Jack does and what Algernon does, however, is that Jack
not only pretends to be something he is not, that is, completely virtuous, but also routinely
pretends to be someone he is not, which is very different. This sort of deception suggests a
far more serious and profound degree of hypocrisy. Through these various enactments of
double lives, Wilde suggests the general hypocrisy of the Victorian mindset.
SYMBOLS - cont
• Food
• Food and scenes of eating appear frequently in The Importance of Being Earnest, and they
are almost always sources of conflict. Act I contains the extended cucumber sandwich joke,
in which Algernon, without realizing it, steadily devours all the sandwiches. In Act II, the
climax of Gwendolen and Cecily's spat over who is really engaged to Ernest Worthing comes
when Gwendolen tells Cecily, who has just offered her sugar and cake, that sugar is “not
fashionable any more” and “Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays.” Cecily
responds by filling Gwendolen's tea with sugar and her plate with cake. The two women
have actually been insulting each other quite steadily for some time, but Cecily's impudent
actions cause Gwendolen to become even angrier, and she warns Cecily that she “may go
too far.” On one level, the jokes about food provide a sort of low comedy, the Wildean
equivalent of the slammed door or the pratfall. On another level, food seems to be a stand-
in for sex, as when Jack tucks into the bread and butter with too much gusto and Algernon
accuses him of behaving as though he were already married to Gwendolen. Food and
gluttony suggest and substitute for other appetites and indulgences.
SYMBOLS - cont
• Fiction and Writing
• Writing and the idea of fiction figure in the play in a variety of important ways. Algernon,
when the play opens, has begun to suspect that Jack's life is at least partly a fiction, which,
thanks to the invented brother Ernest, it is. Bunbury is also a fiction. When Algernon says in
Act I, “More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read,” he may be
making a veiled reference to fiction, or at least reading material perceived to be immoral. In
Act II, the idea of fiction develops further when Cecily speaks dismissively of “three-volume
novels” and Miss Prism tells her she once wrote one herself. This is an allusion to a
mysterious past life that a contemporary audience would have recognized as a stock element
of stage melodrama. Cecily's diary is a sort of fiction as well: In it, she has recorded an
invented romance whose details and developments she has entirely imagined. When Cecily
and Gwendolen seek to establish their respective claims on Ernest Worthing, each appeals
to the diary in which she recorded the date of her engagement, as though the mere fact of
having written something down makes it fact. Ultimately, fiction becomes related to the
notion of life as an art form. Several of the characters attempt to create a fictional life for
themselves which then, in some capacity, becomes real. Wilde seems to regard as most
fundamentally moral those who not only freely admit to creating fictions for themselves but
who actually take pride in doing so.
LANGUAGE & STRUCTURAL DEVICES
• Language style ~ "The major influence on Wilde and his writing style was
not that of his contemporaries, George
Bernard Shaw being one, but rather the inheritance of Restoration Comedy.
. . It has been argued that Wilde's plays are not so much about people as
about words. The characters live through their speech, merely conveying
the role they are playing, rather than their psychology."
• The play is structured as a series of verbal fencing matches in which
showing the right form is as important as making one's point.
• foreshadowing · In stage comedy and domestic melodrama, foreshadowing
often takes the form of objects, ideas, or plot points whose very existence in
the play signal to the audience that they will come up again.
• Structure of play ~ Influenced by French Theatre, Melodrama, Social drama
& Farce
LANGUAGE & STRUCTURAL DEVICES cont
• FARCE ~ Broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable or
ludicrous situations.
• Humorous play using exaggerated physical action, slapstick, absurdity &
improbability
• Contains surprises where the unexpected is disclosed: Jack misidentifies Prism as
his unmarried mother – typical farcical ending.
• Farces ~ 3 Acts
Changes in identity
Stock Characters
Misunderstandings between lovers
Mourning clothes & gobbling food down at times of stress are
conventions used in early farces.
LANGUAGE & STRUCTURAL DEVICES cont:
• Marriage plots / Social comedies typical of 1890’s literature
• Many comedies of the time were Social comedies, plays set in
contemporary times discussing current problems.
• White Anglo Saxon male society of the time provided many targets of
complacency & aristocratic attitudes that playwrights, such as Wilde,
could attack.
• Stock characters
• Rely on cultural
stereotypes
• Instantly recognizable
to people of that
culture
• Often used to satirize
certain cultural norms
• Present in drama from
the earliest times
WHAT MAKES THE PLAY A COMDEY?
COMIC
CONVENTIONS
Apperance/deception
Romantic comedy
Classic comedy
Word play/puns
Mistaken
identities
hyperbole
names
Extraordinary
events
Interlocking plots
satire Dramatic irony Love of comic servants
Disguise and
trickery
farce
subversions
Slapstick comedy

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The importance of being earnest

  • 2. • full title · The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • type of work · Play • genre · Social comedy; comedy of manners; satire; intellectual farce • time and place written · Summer 1894 in Worthing, England • date of first production · February 14, 1895. In part because of Wilde’s disgrace, the play was not published until 1899. • publisher · L. Smithers • tone · Light, scintillating, effervescent, deceptively flippant • setting (time) · 1890s • setting (place) · London (Act I) and Hertfordshire, a rural county not far from London (Acts II and III) KEY FACTS
  • 3. PLOT • Jack Worthing is a rich and refined young man who lives in the country, but when he comes to London he uses the name Ernest. He’s in love with Gwendolen, his friend Algernon Montcrieff’s cousin. He proposes to her and she accepts because she has always wanted to marry someone by the name of Ernest. The girl’s mother, Lady Bracknell, is at first happy about the match, until sha discovers that Jack does not know who his parents are. • In the second act, the scene is set in Jack’s country house. Algernon arrives and, hoping to find out his friend’s secrets, introduces himself as Ernest, Jack’s supposed wiked elder brother. He meets Cecily, Jack’s ward, and between them it is love at first sight.
  • 4. • But Cecily and Gwendolen meet each other in the temporary absence of the two men, each indignantly insists that she is the one engaged to "Ernest". When Jack and Algernon reappear, their deceptions are exposed. When the men explain themselves, they are forgiven, and the women agree not to break off the engagements when each man announces his intention to be re-christened. • Then Lady Bracknell arrives and again forbids Gwendolen to marry Jack. There seems to be no way out of this, but Lady Bracknell unexpectedly recognizes Miss Prism, Cecily’s governess: she had been her dead sister’s governess, and had, years before, disappeared with this sister’s baby. Miss Prism confesses that she had accidentally put the baby in a handbag which she had than left in Victoria station.
  • 6. • On hearing this, Jack, startled, leaves the room and comes back with the handbag in which he had been found as a baby. It is the same bag, Miss Prism is sure. He is the baby she lost, and since that baby was Lady Bracknell’s sister’s son, it turns out that Jack is her nephew, and Algernon’s brother. Upon farther enquiry, moreover, it is found out that his original name was indeed Ernest. All is well, in the end, and the two couples can finally marry.
  • 7. SUMMARY • protagonist · John Worthing, known as “Ernest” by his friends in town (i.e., London) and as “Jack” by his friends and relations in the country • major conflict · Jack faces many obstacles to his romantic union with Gwendolen. One obstacle is presented by Lady Bracknell (Gwendolen’s Mother), who objects to what she refers to as Jack’s “origins” (i.e. his inability to define his family background). Another obstacle is Gwendolen’s obsession with the name “Ernest,” since she does not know Jack’s real name. • rising action · Algernon ( Jack’s friend in town) discovers that Jack is leading a double life and that he has a pretty young ward named Cecily. The revelation of Jack’s origins causes Lady Bracknell to forbid his union with Gwendolen. Identifying himself as “Ernest,” Algernon visits Jack’s house in the country and falls in love with Cecily. • climax · Gwendolen and Cecily discover that both Jack and Algernon have been lying to them and that neither is really named “Ernest.” • falling action · Miss Prism is revealed to be the governess who mistakenly abandoned Jack as a baby and Jack is discovered to be Algernon’s elder brother, and is in actual fact named Earnest.
  • 8. THE TITLE • The italian edition of the Wilde’s commedy has a serius translation problem. The original title, infact, uses a impossible word’s joke to translate between the adjective “earnest” ( that means onest, serius) and the name Ernest, that in english have the same pronunciation. • So the contrast in this work is the fact that even both declare to be Ernest, nobody is really earnest with his lover.
  • 9. ERNEST / EARNEST: • Homophone: one of a group of words pronounced in the same way but differing in meaning or spelling or both.
  • 10. ERNEST : • Jack’s Alter ego in the city • Jack’s imaginary younger brother • Cecily’s fantasy fiancé • Gwen’s love interest • Algy’s adopted persona in Act 2 • Jack’s real name!
  • 11. EARNEST: • serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous: an earnest worker. • showing depth and sincerity of feeling: earnest words; an earnest entreaty.
  • 12. THE TITLE IS THE FIRST JOKE! • Earnestness can take many forms in the play, including being boring, solemn, pompous, complacent, smug, self-righteous, and having a sense of duty, all of which Wilde saw as hallmarks of the Victorian character.
  • 13. • The earnestness of Victorian society impels Algernon and Jack to invent fictitious alter egos so they can escape the restrictions of decorum and decency. • As you read the play, ask yourself who, if anyone, is ‘earnest’ (and does Wilde suggest that it IS important to be so?)!
  • 14. Analysing a Play Play Plot characters Language Context Themes Settings Stage craft Genre & style
  • 16. STRUCTURE Basic structure: Order-chaos-order There is a resolution and a concluion-but there is still a little disorder in the resolution Comic timings Happy ending Dramatic irony Follows the conventions of romantic comedy Entrances and exits Farcical structure Comedy of manners
  • 18. CHARACTERS deceptive Hopeless romantics immoral Concerned about morals and manners farcical Comic servants superficial strict Ironic/hypocritical Hyperbolic characters comic trivial stereotypical Butler and cad satirical artificial ridiculous
  • 19. CHARACTER STUDIES •What they say •What they do •What others say about them •What others do to them (or in response to them)
  • 25. LANGUAGE (DIALOGUE) •Witty •Wildean Epigrams •Inverted expectations •‘Nonsense’ & paradox •Intertextual echoes •Hyperbole •Dramatic Irony "The real charm of the play, if it is to have charm, must be in the dialogue“ Wilde
  • 26. WILDES TECHNIQUE • Wilde’s sparkling with abouns in irony, sarcasm, nonsense, puns, paradoxes. The humor derives from what the characters say and how thay say it. • This is Wilde’s technique of contraries: to treat “all the seriuos things of life with sincere and studied triviality”. His characters say the most irrelevant and absurd things as if they were talking common sense, but the extreme and slightly absurd situations of the play also expose the superficiality of the English upper class and the shallowness of their lives.
  • 27. SOME OF WILDE’S BETTER KNOWN EPIGRAMS I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Education is an admirable thing, but it is as well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
  • 28. Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
  • 29. A woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. [His final words.] Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
  • 30. GENRE & STYLE ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’ •Intellectual Farce •Comedy of Manners •Romantic comedy •Satire ROMANTIC COMEDY COMEDYOF MANNERS
  • 31. THEMES, MOTIFS & SYMBOLS • THEMES ·Victorian Social Issues. The nature of marriage; the constraints of morality; hypocrisy vs. inventiveness; the importance of not being “earnest”. • MOTIFS · Puns; inversion; death; the dandy • SYMBOLS · The double life; food; fiction and writing
  • 32. THEMES CONTINUED •Lies, fantasy, deceit & morality •Love, romance & marriage •Respectability & social conventions •Class & wealth •Gender •Foolishness & folly
  • 33. THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE TEXT. MARRIAGE • is of paramount importance in The Importance of Being Earnest, both as a primary force motivating the plot and as a subject for philosophical speculation and debate. The question of the nature of marriage appears for the first time in the opening dialogue between Algernon and his butler, Lane, and from this point on the subject never disappears for very long. Algernon and Jack discuss the nature of marriage when they dispute briefly about whether a marriage proposal is a matter of “business” or “pleasure,” and Lady Bracknell touches on the issue when she states, “An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be.” Even Lady Bracknell's list of bachelors and the prepared interview to which she subjects Jack are based on a set of assumptions about the nature and purpose of marriage. In general, these assumptions reflect the conventional preoccupations of Victorian respectability—social position, income, and character.• •
  • 34. THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE TEXT MARRIAGE – cont The play is actually an ongoing debate about the nature of marriage and whether it is “pleasant or unpleasant.” Lane remarks casually that he believes it to be “a very pleasant state,” before admitting that his own marriage, now presumably ended, was the result of “a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.” Algernon regards Lane's views on marriage as “somewhat lax.” His own views are relentlessly cynical until he meets and falls in love with Cecily. Jack, by contrast, speaks in the voice of the true romantic. He tells Algernon, however, that the truth “isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.” At the end of the play, Jack apologizes to Gwendolen when he realizes he had been telling the truth all his life. She forgives him, she says, on the grounds that she thinks he's sure to change, which suggests Gwendolen's own rather cynical view of the nature of men and marriage.
  • 35. THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE TEXT cont • The Constraints of Morality • Morality and the constraints it imposes on society is a favorite topic of conversation in The Importance of Being Earnest. Algernon thinks the servant class has a responsibility to set a moral standard for the upper classes. Jack thinks reading a private cigarette case is “ungentlemanly.” “More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read,” Algernon points out. These restrictions and assumptions suggest a strict code of morals that exists in Victorian society, but Wilde isn't concerned with questions of what is and isn't moral. Instead, he makes fun of the whole Victorian idea of morality as a rigid body of rules about what people should and shouldn't do. The very title of the play is a double-edged comment on the phenomenon. The play's central plot—the man who both is and isn't Ernest/earnest—presents a moral paradox. Earnestness, which refers to both the quality of being serious and the quality of being sincere, is the play's primary object of satire. Characters such as Jack, Gwendolen, Miss Prism, and Dr. Chasuble, who put a premium on sobriety and honesty, are either hypocrites or else have the rug pulled out from under them. What Wilde wants us to see as truly moral is really the opposite of earnestness: irreverence
  • 36. THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE TEXT cont • Hypocrisy vs. Inventiveness • Algernon and Jack may create similar deceptions, but they are not morally equivalent characters. When Jack fabricates his brother Ernest's death, he imposes that fantasy on his loved ones, and though we are aware of the deception, they, of course, are not. He rounds out the deception with costumes and props, and he does his best to convince the family he's in mourning. He is acting hypocritically. In contrast, Algernon and Cecily make up elaborate stories that don't really assault the truth in any serious way or try to alter anyone else's perception of reality. In a sense, Algernon and Cecily are characters after Wilde's own heart, since in a way they invent life for themselves as though life is a work of art. In some ways, Algernon, not Jack, is the play's real hero. Not only is Algernon like Wilde in his dandified, exquisite wit, tastes, and priorities, but he also resembles Wilde to the extent that his fictions and inventions resemble those of an artist.
  • 37. THEMES AND EXPLEMPLIFICATION FROM THE TEXT cont • The Importance of Not Being “Ernest” • Earnestness, which implies seriousness or sincerity, is the great enemy of morality in The Importance of Being Earnest. Earnestness can take many forms, including boringness, solemnity, pomposity, complacency, smugness, self-righteousness, and sense of duty, all of which Wilde saw as hallmarks of the Victorian character. When characters in the play use the word serious, they tend to mean “trivial,” and vice versa. For example, Algernon thinks it “shallow” for people not to be “serious” about meals, and Gwendolen believes, “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” • For Wilde, the word earnest comprised two different but related ideas: the notion of false truth and the notion of false morality, or moralism. The moralism of Victorian society—its smugness and pomposity—impels Algernon and Jack to invent fictitious alter egos so as to be able to escape the strictures of propriety and decency. However, what one member of society considers decent or indecent doesn't always reflect what decency really is. One of the play's paradoxes is the impossibility of actually being either earnest (meaning “serious” or “sincere”) or moral while claiming to be so. The characters who embrace triviality and wickedness are the ones who may have the greatest chance of attaining seriousness and virtue.
  • 38. MOTIFS -motifs are reoccurring structures, contrasts or literacy devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes • Puns • In The Importance of Being Earnest, the pun, widely considered to be the lowest form of verbal wit, is rarely just a play on words. The pun in the title is a case in point. The earnest/Ernest joke strikes at the very heart of Victorian notions of respectability and duty. Gwendolen wants to marry a man called Ernest, and she doesn't care whether the man actually possesses the qualities that comprise earnestness. She is, after all, quick to forgive Jack's deception. In embodying a man who is initially neither “earnest” nor “Ernest,” and who, through forces beyond his control, subsequently becomes both “earnest” and “Ernest,” Jack is a walking, breathing paradox and a complex symbol of Victorian hypocrisy. • In Act III, when Lady Bracknell quips that until recently she had no idea there were any persons “whose origin was a Terminus,” she too is making an extremely complicated pun. The joke is that a railway station is as far back as Jack can trace his identity and therefore a railway station actually is his “origin,” hence the pun. In Wilde's day, as in the England of today, the first stop on a railway line is known as the “origin” and the last stop as the “terminus.” There's also a whole series of implicit subsidiary puns on words like line and connection that can refer to either ancestry or travel. Wilde is poking fun at Lady Bracknell's snobbery. He depicts her as incapable of distinguishing between a railway line and a family line, social connections and railway connections, a person's ancestral origins and the place where he chanced to be found. In general, puns add layers of meaning to the characters' lines and call into question the true or intended meaning of what is being said.
  • 39. MOTIFS - cont • Inversion • One of the most common motifs in The Importance of Being Earnest is the notion of inversion, and inversion takes many forms. The play contains inversions of thought, situation, and character, as well as inversions of common notions of morality or philosophical thought. When Algernon remarks, “Divorces are made in Heaven,” he inverts the cliché about marriages being “made in heaven.” Similarly, at the end of the play, when Jack calls it “a terrible thing” for a man to discover that he's been telling the truth all his life, he inverts conventional morality. Most of the women in the play represent an inversion of accepted Victorian practices with regard to gender roles. Lady Bracknell usurps the role of the father in interviewing Jack, since typically this was a father's task, and Gwendolen and Cecily take charge of their own romantic lives, while the men stand by watching in a relatively passive role. The trick that Wilde plays on Miss Prism at the end of the play is also a kind of inversion: The trick projects onto the play's most fervently moralistic character the image of the “fallen woman” of melodrama.
  • 40. MOTIFS - cont • Death • Jokes about death appear frequently in The Importance of Being Earnest. Lady Bracknell comes onstage talking about death, and in one of the play's many inversions, she says her friend Lady Harbury looks twenty years younger since the death of her husband. With respect to Bunbury, she suggests that death is an inconvenience for others—she says Bunbury is “shilly-shallying” over whether “to live or to die.” On being told in Act III that Bunbury has died suddenly in accordance with his physicians' predictions, Lady Bracknell commends Bunbury for acting “under proper medical advice.” Miss Prism speaks as though death were something from which one could learn a moral lesson and piously says she hopes Ernest will profit from having died. Jack and Algernon have several conversations about how to “kill” Jack's imaginary brother. Besides giving the play a layer of dark humor, the death jokes also connect to the idea of life being a work of art. Most of the characters discuss death as something over which a person actually has control, as though death is a final decision one can make about how to shape and color one's life.
  • 41. MOTIFS - cont • The Dandy • To the form of Victorian melodrama, Wilde contributed the figure of the dandy, a character who gave the form a moral texture it had never before possessed. In Wilde's works, the dandy is a witty, overdressed, self-styled philosopher who speaks in epigrams and paradoxes and ridicules the cant and hypocrisy of society's moral arbiters. To a very large extent, this figure was a self-portrait, a stand-in for Wilde himself. The dandy isn't always a comic figure in Wilde's work. In A Woman of No Importance and The Picture of Dorian Gray, he takes the form of the villains Lord Illingworth and Lord Henry Wootton, respectively. But in works such as Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde seems to be evolving a more positive and clearly defined moral position on the figure of the dandy. The dandy pretends to be all about surface, which makes him seem trivial, shallow, and ineffectual. Lord Darlington and Lord Goring (in Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband) both present themselves this way. In fact, the dandy in both plays turns out to be something very close to the real hero. He proves to be deeply moral and essential to the happy resolution of the plot.
  • 42. • In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon has many characteristics of the dandy, but he remains morally neutral throughout the play. Many other characters also express dandiacal sentiments and views. Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell are being dandiacal when they assert the importance of surfaces, style, or “profile,” and even Jack echoes the philosophy of the dandy when he comes onstage asserting that “pleasure” is the only thing that should “bring one anywhere.” For the most part, these utterances seem to be part of Wilde's general lampooning of the superficiality of the upper classes. The point is that it's the wrong sort of superficiality because it doesn't recognize and applaud its own triviality. In fact, Cecily, with her impatience with self-improvement and conventional morality and her curiosity about “wickedness,” is arguably the character who, after Algernon, most closely resembles the dandy. Her dandiacal qualities make her a perfect match for him.
  • 43. SYMBOLS – are objects, characters figures or colours used to represent abstract ideas or concepts • The Double Life • The double life is the central metaphor in the play, epitomized in the notion of “Bunbury” or “Bunburying.” As defined by Algernon, Bunburying is the practice of creating an elaborate deception that allows one to misbehave while seeming to uphold the very highest standards of duty and responsibility. Jack's imaginary, wayward brother Ernest is a device not only for escaping social and moral obligations but also one that allows Jack to appear far more moral and responsible than he actually is. Similarly, Algernon's imaginary invalid friend Bunbury allows Algernon to escape to the country, where he presumably imposes on people who don't know him in much the same way he imposes on Cecily in the play, all the while seeming to demonstrate Christian charity. The practice of visiting the poor and the sick was a staple activity among the Victorian upper and upper-middle classes and considered a public duty. The difference between what Jack does and what Algernon does, however, is that Jack not only pretends to be something he is not, that is, completely virtuous, but also routinely pretends to be someone he is not, which is very different. This sort of deception suggests a far more serious and profound degree of hypocrisy. Through these various enactments of double lives, Wilde suggests the general hypocrisy of the Victorian mindset.
  • 44. SYMBOLS - cont • Food • Food and scenes of eating appear frequently in The Importance of Being Earnest, and they are almost always sources of conflict. Act I contains the extended cucumber sandwich joke, in which Algernon, without realizing it, steadily devours all the sandwiches. In Act II, the climax of Gwendolen and Cecily's spat over who is really engaged to Ernest Worthing comes when Gwendolen tells Cecily, who has just offered her sugar and cake, that sugar is “not fashionable any more” and “Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays.” Cecily responds by filling Gwendolen's tea with sugar and her plate with cake. The two women have actually been insulting each other quite steadily for some time, but Cecily's impudent actions cause Gwendolen to become even angrier, and she warns Cecily that she “may go too far.” On one level, the jokes about food provide a sort of low comedy, the Wildean equivalent of the slammed door or the pratfall. On another level, food seems to be a stand- in for sex, as when Jack tucks into the bread and butter with too much gusto and Algernon accuses him of behaving as though he were already married to Gwendolen. Food and gluttony suggest and substitute for other appetites and indulgences.
  • 45. SYMBOLS - cont • Fiction and Writing • Writing and the idea of fiction figure in the play in a variety of important ways. Algernon, when the play opens, has begun to suspect that Jack's life is at least partly a fiction, which, thanks to the invented brother Ernest, it is. Bunbury is also a fiction. When Algernon says in Act I, “More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read,” he may be making a veiled reference to fiction, or at least reading material perceived to be immoral. In Act II, the idea of fiction develops further when Cecily speaks dismissively of “three-volume novels” and Miss Prism tells her she once wrote one herself. This is an allusion to a mysterious past life that a contemporary audience would have recognized as a stock element of stage melodrama. Cecily's diary is a sort of fiction as well: In it, she has recorded an invented romance whose details and developments she has entirely imagined. When Cecily and Gwendolen seek to establish their respective claims on Ernest Worthing, each appeals to the diary in which she recorded the date of her engagement, as though the mere fact of having written something down makes it fact. Ultimately, fiction becomes related to the notion of life as an art form. Several of the characters attempt to create a fictional life for themselves which then, in some capacity, becomes real. Wilde seems to regard as most fundamentally moral those who not only freely admit to creating fictions for themselves but who actually take pride in doing so.
  • 46. LANGUAGE & STRUCTURAL DEVICES • Language style ~ "The major influence on Wilde and his writing style was not that of his contemporaries, George Bernard Shaw being one, but rather the inheritance of Restoration Comedy. . . It has been argued that Wilde's plays are not so much about people as about words. The characters live through their speech, merely conveying the role they are playing, rather than their psychology." • The play is structured as a series of verbal fencing matches in which showing the right form is as important as making one's point. • foreshadowing · In stage comedy and domestic melodrama, foreshadowing often takes the form of objects, ideas, or plot points whose very existence in the play signal to the audience that they will come up again. • Structure of play ~ Influenced by French Theatre, Melodrama, Social drama & Farce
  • 47. LANGUAGE & STRUCTURAL DEVICES cont • FARCE ~ Broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable or ludicrous situations. • Humorous play using exaggerated physical action, slapstick, absurdity & improbability • Contains surprises where the unexpected is disclosed: Jack misidentifies Prism as his unmarried mother – typical farcical ending. • Farces ~ 3 Acts Changes in identity Stock Characters Misunderstandings between lovers Mourning clothes & gobbling food down at times of stress are conventions used in early farces.
  • 48. LANGUAGE & STRUCTURAL DEVICES cont: • Marriage plots / Social comedies typical of 1890’s literature • Many comedies of the time were Social comedies, plays set in contemporary times discussing current problems. • White Anglo Saxon male society of the time provided many targets of complacency & aristocratic attitudes that playwrights, such as Wilde, could attack.
  • 49. • Stock characters • Rely on cultural stereotypes • Instantly recognizable to people of that culture • Often used to satirize certain cultural norms • Present in drama from the earliest times WHAT MAKES THE PLAY A COMDEY?
  • 50. COMIC CONVENTIONS Apperance/deception Romantic comedy Classic comedy Word play/puns Mistaken identities hyperbole names Extraordinary events Interlocking plots satire Dramatic irony Love of comic servants Disguise and trickery farce subversions Slapstick comedy