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“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!