ENGL121 Lecture : Importance of Being Earnest
8 Jan 2012
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Pages in the engl 121 textbook to consider. 2232, jack and lady bracknell (social mobility and hypocrisy and fear of the upper classes) Jack/earnest and algernon both embody the aesthetic period. They are also both very cynical about love, society, and everything else in the. All of the characters are subconsciously aware of the hypocrisy of the age. The ideals of the age can not be achieved. 2224 (engl textbook) -->algernon is cynical about the romance of marriage. Divorce is described as being made in heaven. Algernon and jack/earnest realize that love is destroyed by marriage. It is a trap that forces men to be a certain kind of person. Gwendolyn likes the name earnest because she thinks that someone named. Split between jack and earnest shows the gap between public and private. She wants to be in a relationship where she will have some say. Marriage forces people into roles that she does not want to play.
