“The Importance of Being Earnest”
is quite hilarious. I adore the satire in his play because the satire really
draws the audience in. It’s sort of getting annoying how everyone in AP Lit can
quote something from every piece of work we read. From this play it is “Now to minor matters, are
your parents living?” Why are we so able to quote so much? This quote seems to
be really important to the feel on the entire play. I believe that Wilde feels
that the people of the upper class are much too focused on the things that do
not truly matter.
In Act 3, all of Algy and Jacks bunburrying
is revealed in a hilarious way. I love all of the Victorian “wars” over bread
and whatnot. Not only does Wilde successfully make the audience laugh, he also
achieves the truth of the time period as well. I love how Cecily and Gwendolyn
act towards each other. I find it quite hilarious how they are forced to act when
they are not getting along with each other. I loved how the two girls figured
out the truth about “being Earnest”. The parts about the men being christened
were very important because the whole idea of the fresh purified baptisms/
christening to rid themselves of their given names to give them a fake name is
ironic because it would just create a piled on fake name with no value in their
lives. Everything is so opposite.
Now, I don’t have anything more to
say about the play. I was working on my writing portfolio today and I have
really really changed as a writer, especially if you can get passed the fact
that I hardly go into enough depth about the passages prepared for us. I did improve
on many things though. I have learned to improve my abilities to expand my
ideas of the passage and how I feel about it. In the beginning of the year I tended
to use phrases such as “the poem said…”
like really Marie? What the heck? So now, I do nor do that so often
which is improvement. So I guess that is good. Grr. Ms Clinch… I so want to
point out how much you have made me socially awkward as well as just in general;
awkward. I am watching stupid Disney channel with my sisters and I keep
pointing out really obnoxious allusions. I do not think I could be friends with
me. At prom I was doing the same thing. Anyone who is not in AP Lit does not
understand!
