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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895)
This week, put on your finest attire and prepare for a dazzling feast of wit as we analyze Oscar Wilde's brilliant 1895 play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," the play is a flawless satire that skewers Victorian social conventions, morality, and the institution of marriage through a ridiculously complicated plot centered on two gentlemen—Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff—who invent fictional alter egos named "Ernest" to escape their burdensome social obligations. . We explore Wilde's famous use of epigrams and paradox as he exposes the…
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