Review: The Importance of Being Earnest The importance of being E, Apuntes de Literatura Americana

¡Descarga Review: The Importance of Being Earnest The importance of being E y más Apuntes en PDF de Literatura Americana solo en Docsity! Review: The Importance of Being Earnest The importance of being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde was first performed on 14th February 1895 at the St. James Theatre in London. This play tells the story of Jack Worthing, or Ernest; is a social comedy set in an Victorian background and has an ironic, humorous and even absurd style. The major conflict of this play is Mr. Worthing's wish of marrying Gwendolen and the difficulties that he encounters when he tries to get her mother's consent. The Victorian main concerns were material goods, money was very important to open almost all gates of life and the marriage was one among them, that is the reason why Gwendolen's mother disagreed with Mr. Worthing's wish. This play is divided in three acts and in every one are explained different aspects of the story in order to progressively understand what is happening. In the first act Jack Worthing goes to Algernon Moncrieff's house and waits for Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell. When they finally arrived, Jack took advantage of a moment of distraction when Lady Bracknell and Algernon went away to propose Gwendolen marriage, but there is a problem, Gwendolen likes Jack but prefers to marry a man named Ernest because that name sounds better to her. Lady Bracknell appears and makes Jack some questions about his possesions, his habits and his family. When she discovered that Jack is orphan (when he was a baby he was found in a bag) she tells him to firstly find his real parents before wanting to marry Gwendolen. The second act tells us the arrival of Algernon at Jack's house. He explains Cecily Cardew and Miss Prism that he is Jack's brother called Ernest. Flirting with Cecily he discovers that she likes the name of Ernest as much as Gwendolen. Algernon tells her that he is going to be there until Monday when Jack was supposed to arrive, but Jack comes back early and tell everyone that his brother Ernest died in Paris (he really does not have a brother). When Jack sees Algernon pretending to be his brother in his house he gets mad but Algernon will not leave because he fell in love with Cecily, who accepted his marriage proposal. When things could not get worse, appear Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell and meets Cecily and they discover that they are engaged to the same man, Ernest Worthing. The two women discuss with Algernon and Jack and they finally confess who they are and their real names, after the angry girls abandon the scene.