Oscar Wilde Essay Examples

There are many factors such as: weather, attending friends, and reason for attendance, that go in to whether or not the audience member has a successful play going experience. Like a typical summer night in Florida, the dark sky was threatening to let forth an unforgiving storm. Being dropped off reduced much of the tension…

Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, features many themes; one of the most prominent being conflict among the two social classes. Wilde’s play shows the differences in behavior between the upper and lower classes. The upper class have a great amount of pride, feeling as though they are entitled to their positions in…

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being EarnestWhile some critics contend that The Importance of Being Earnest iscompletely fanciful and has no relation to the real world, others maintain thatOscar Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people” does make significant commentsabout social class and the institution of marriage. These observations includethe prevalent utilization of deceit in everyday…

54 – 1900)The Importance ofBeing Earnestby Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900)Type of Work:Comic, farcical playSettingLondon, and a country house in Hertfordshire,England; the 1890sPrincipal CharactersJack Worthing, gentleman of the ManorHouse; also known as “Ernest”Celcily Cardew, Worthing’s pretty youngwardMiss Prism, Cecily’s governessAlgernon Moncrieff, Worthing’s friendLady Augusta Braknell, Algernon’s auntGwendolen Fairfax, Lady Bracknell’s daughterThe Reverend Canon Chasublc, Rector ofWooltonStory…

Oscar Wilde was one of the most prominent Irish born playwrights. He was a major player in the aesthetic movement, which was based on art for art’s sake. Wilde was also a novelist, playwright, poet, and critic. He was born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wilson Wilde on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. Wilde came from…

Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil”s life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde”s mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde believes that the artist should not portray any of himself in his work,…

Oscar Wilde’s comedy ‘The Importance of being Ernest’ is entwined around the concept of mistaken identity. It shows the irony of a group of friends, within a Victorian society, meddling with the truth to make themselves more appealing to each other. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are good friends of an upper class society. Jack…

A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Vera, or The Nihilists. Oscar Wilde. Privately Printed, 1902. CZAR: Vera, the Nihilist in Moscow! O God, were it not better to die at once the dog’s death they plot for me than to live as I live now! Never to…

A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Representative One-Act Plays by British and Irish Authors. Ed. Barrett H. Clark. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1921. SALOME: I am amorous of thy body, Iokanaan! Thy body is white, like the lilies of the field that the mower hath never…

A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from A Woman of No Importance. Oscar Wilde. London: Methuen & Co., 1916. MRS. ALLONBY: The Ideal Man! Oh, the Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse…