The importance of being earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

In Oscar Wilde's play ,The Importance of Being Earnest, he expresses many different types of tone to his play. He goes through it with witty and sarcastic characters that also have sifictication in them as well as some not so smart moves made by them. By using these characters with sarcastic tones and different ways of talking that was in the Victorian era. Oscar Wilde creates a new form of writing by having his work being more comical and witty then a play written in tragedy. Even though he still uses the journey and strive for love with others it is different from what was normal in his time.

In Act I there are many examples of how Oscar Wilde uses the different tone of the character Algernon. He is mainly portrayed as a sarcastic character that in the Victorian society was unusual do to having the idea of always being polite and respectful. A great example 0f this is when he tells Jack, Earnest, about Mr.Bunbury. He said " nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury." In reading this you can sense the sarcasm and pride that would be in his tone as he tells Jack how a man he made up will be helpful for him in the long run when Jack would have marriage problems. Being back then one was thought of that as no joking matter yet here that is exactly how marriage is seen, as a joke.

Also in Act I I there are some examples of good use of language in the way that Cecily and Gwendolyn find out that they have both been proposed to by Earnest. When Cecily says " I am afraid you must be under some misconception. Earnest proposed to me exactly ten minutes ago." Then Gwendolyn said," It is certainly very curious, for he asked me to be his wife yesterday afternoon at 5:30" in doing this twist in the story with both of their to e's being prideful and sure of themselves. He expresses how humanity can be played by others and made to look as if they have stupidity for not knowing what is really going on and then showing specific examples of them being right. This was important because it showed a sort of scandal that was costumed to have happened back in the Victorian era.

In Act III it shows how Oscar Wilde presents another twist to the play when it is found out who Jacks family really is. An example of how Jack brings out the fact that Cecily was wrong for accusing him of lieing would be when he  said, " Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! Cecily,- how could you have ever doubted that I had a brother."  When he said this he presented it with a pride for not being wrong and for not have been lying after all about having a brother. Which in turned made the other feel ridiculous for the judgment that they had about him.

In conclusion Oscar Wilde show ls how the play uses different forms of writing that was unique to the Victorian Era. His play was filled with the sarcasm and pride of other and yet also had themes of lust for other and the feeling of stupidity for others and is a great example of a work that was different from others during this time. This play had characters that in the Victorian Era considered to be very weird and unthought of and was considered to be wrong. The mixing of the family name on a person who came from a bag at the train. Station was thought to be beneath people of the higher society like Gwendolyn.