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Title: Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest


1
Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest
  • Fabio Pesaresi

2
Dramatis Personae

Jack Worthing
? Ernest
? lover
Gwendolen Fairfax
? cousin
Algernon Moncrieff
? Banbury
3
Country City
  • Jack (Ernest)
  • (Banbury) Algernon
  • Cecily Gwendolen
  • Miss Prism Lady Bracknell

4
The proposal
  • Jack proposes to Gwendolen
  • She accepts, because she can only love someone
    whose name is
  • Ernest !!!

5
The interview
  • Lady Bracknell asks Jack
  • about his house,
  • his habits
  • his parents

6
Jacks origin
  • Mr Thomas Cardew
  • found Jack
  • in a handbag
  • in the cloakroom at Victoria Station

7

In the countryside
  • Miss Prism and Cecily studying
  • Miss Prism goes to see Dr Chasuble
  • Algernon (Ernest) arrives

8
Jack in mourning
  • Announces that his brother has died
  • Surprised by the presence of Algernon
  • Tells him to go away
  • Goes to Dr Chasuble to be christened with the
    name of Ernest

9
The proposal
  • Algernon-Ernest
  • proposes to
  • Cecily who says
  • We have been engaged for three months

10

Cecily
  • I love you because you are so wicked
  • and because I always wanted to marry someone
    whose name is
  • Ernest !!!

11

Gwendolen
  • meets Cecily
  • they become friends
  • They discover they are both engaged to
    Ernest Worthing
  • They quarrel
  • They quarrel with the two men

12
Reconciliation
  • The men try to make peacewith the two young
    women
  • They announce they are going to be rechristened
    that afternoon

13
Lady Bracknell
  • Forbids marriage between Jack and Gwendolen
  • Asks about Cecily and gives consent to marriage
    with Algernon (she is rich!)
  • Jack forbids the marriage

14
Recognition
  • Miss Prism was the governess at the house of Lady
    Bracknells sister
  • She lost the baby Jack

15
New situation
  • Jack is Algernons elder brother
  • his real name is..
  • Ernest

16
Commentary
  • Comedy of manners complicated plot, full of
    intrigue
  • Nonsensical play
  • Satire
  • Shallow characters (no depth)

17
  • Wilde creates an entire world, frivolous and
    light
  • Witty language
  • Elegant manners

18
Misapplied logic
  • Lady Bracknell
  • Lets go. We have already missed five, if not
    six, trains. To miss many more might expose us to
    comment on the platform

19
Misapplied logic
  • Jack
  • I have lost both my parents.
  • Lady Bracknell
  • Both? That seems like carelessness!

20
Misapplied logic
  • Algernon I must take the first train on Monday
    morning. I have a buisiness appointment I am
    anxious to miss.
  • Cecily Couldnt you miss it anywhere but in
    London?
  • Algernon No the appointment is in London

21
Paradox
  • Lady Bracknell
  • You have a town house, I hope?
  • A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature like
    Gwendolen could hardly be expected to live in the
    country.

22
Paradox
  • Gwendolen
  • on her father who is not very famous in society
  • I think that is quite as it should be. The home
    seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.

23
Sparkling language
  • Algernon,
  • about a recently widowed lady
  • I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief

24
Sparking language
  • Jack, about Lady Bracknell
  • a monster, without being a myth,
  • which is unfair!

25
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