John Ruskin Essays

Oscar Wilde’s Victorian melodramatic play The Importance of Being Earnest opened on February 14, 1895. Wilde used this play to criticize Victorian society through clever phrasing and satire. Throughout the play The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde displayed the themes of the nature of marriage, the constraints of morality, and the importance of not being earnest. One of the themes that Oscar Wilde includes in the play is the nature of marriage. The idea that marriage is treated as a business is

The aristocratic matriarch in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell, harshly enforces the necessity of a profitable marriage, minimizes the role of women, and forces others to adhere to tradition. Her perfect embodiment of these strict Victorian Era England standards precisely illustrates the effects of the standards of the time on her character. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, as seen in the Norton’s Anthology of English Literature, encapsulated strict,

The tiny shoes, the small clothes, and sweet little coos of joy; it’s enough to make anyone come down with baby fever. Having a child is one of the most beautiful miracles in life and one of the most primal urges. But what happens when the desire for a child goes a bit too far? From the very beginning, the governess, the narrator of The Turn of the Screw, shows a deep-seated fascination and borderline obsession for her new charges, Miles, age ten, and his sister Flora, age eight. The governess envies

Jeren Yong Mr. Todd Language and Literature, Writing to Compare Satire 10 January 2018 “The Importance of Being Earnest” VS. “Big Kiss” This play’s setting is in the Victorian society. Wilde is writing this play as a satire to emphasize the ridiculousness of the Victoria society. The author wants to say how stupid the people are; they only care about the social status of people. In fact, the people in “The Importance of Being Earnest” are not earnest at all. At the end of the play, three engagements

arch 2018 The Importance of Being Earnest: Oscar Wilde’s Criticism on the Upper Class Using humor, cleverness, and style, Oscar Wilde illustrates the lives of the Victorian upper class in The Importance of Being Earnest. More specifically, the “Trivial Comedy for Serious People” reveals in a satirical manner the insignificant concerns of Great Britain’s aristocracy. In the introduction of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings, editor Richard Ellmann creates an overview of Wilde’s best known

A person cannot always be ethical in their ways and in the Importance of Being Earnest there is hardly a clear moral compass. The Importance of Being Earnest is a satirical story used to poke fun at the immoral and confusing Victorian society. Jack, a bunburist born in a handbag, falls in love with Gwendolyn who loves the name Earnest. If it’s lady Bracknel’s absurd requirements or Gwendolyn’s need for a man named Earnest, there is no limit to sociopaths in this novel. With all this in mind it seems

A display of John Ruskin’s ideas on Naturalism in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright John Ruskin was a nineteenth-century British writer and art critic of the Victorian era. Nature was a recurring theme in all of his writings which were usually cross-referencing one another and intersecting chronologically. He wrote the first volume of Modern Painters in 1843 followed by the second volume in 1846. He then stopped to write ‚The Seven Lamps of Architecture‘ in 1849 and three volumes of ‘The Stones Of

Satire can be described as work intended to trigger or scorn a group of people in a humorous way. For instance, “The Significance of Being Earnest,” a play by Oscar Wilde satirizes gender as well as marriage. Moreover, this play scorns conventions, values as well as the hunt for love during the Victorian period. The central characters in the comedy include Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack accepts an adjust eagle on his way to town to evade intellectual and moral upright behaviors. He is

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published on 16 October 1847. It was adapted into a movie by Cary Fukunaga in 2011. Charlotte Bronte uses "Jane Eyre" to criticizes the class system of the Victorian Age in terms of 19th century women, the roles of womanhood, female stereotypes. Due to the fact that Jane has extremely intellectual and polite personality, she did not allow her character to change and bend the class system. Because of being orphan, she was looked down

The tiny shoes, the small clothes, and sweet little coos of joy; it’s enough to make anyone come down with baby fever. Having a child is one of the most beautiful miracles in life and one of the most primal urges. But what happens when the desire for a child goes a bit too far? From the very beginning, the governess, the narrator of The Turn of the Screw, shows a deep-seated fascination and borderline obsession for her new charges, Miles, age ten, and his sister Flora, age eight. The governess envies

The victorian individual that I researched was Oscar Wilde. He was extremely important to the Victorian Era because he challenged the standard philosophies of art and literature, moving the culture forwards while creating a lasting legacy that would affect people’s lives for many years following. Oscar Wilde is most definitely a realist. Specifically, he is an aestheticist, or in other words someone who believed that art and literature should not be dragged down by alternative meaning and lessons

The characteristics a person values often corresponds to the type of person they are. One individual may value a person’s sense of humor while another values a person’s sincerity. The values these individuals have are often influenced by the society and class around them. The way a group acts relates to the characteristics the individuals may value. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde’s characters show the superficial and corrupt nature of the upper class by placing value on a name, appearances

three acts which is now the widely known version, which I will be using. There are a range of important narrative features such as an inciting incident, a range of turning points and a clear midpoint. As aforementioned in the narrative overview, When John proposes to Gwendolen Fairfax as his city persona, ‘Ernest’ and is rejected by her mother, the main protagonist, a well-known gentleman in the city and a kind man in the country, must try and maintain his persona undetected while trying win her hand

Critical Analysis: The Importance of Being Earnest The actor who played Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of being Earnest did an admirable job creating an authentic personality for his character. A couple of traits Algernon possessed were arrogance and nonchalance. The actor who played Algernon exemplified arrogance through his posture and by the way he carried himself. By looking relaxed with his feet up on the coffee table, or walking with swagger during the scenes, the actor communicated

The importance of being earnest was written by Oscar Wilde and was first performed around 1895 in London ("The Importance of Being Earnest."). Since then, there have been several adaptations of this piece in the form of several movies, musicals and radio versions. The first movie premiered in 1952. Since then two more versions, premiered one in 2002 and one in 2011. Several people argue that The Importance of Being Earnest uses a lot of satire, farce and comedy. I personally think that the book

The Motif of Food Many different motifs are used in literature. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (rpt. In Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015], 1407-1457) there are many different literary elements used including that of a motif. The motif of food is used throughout the play as a stand in for many different feeling and emotions that characters feel throughout the play. The first scene where food is

In the play “The Importance Being Earnest” Oscar Wilde wants to show that the caricature on high society. The play was in the 1800’s. A caricature is a charter or a physical fentress that exaggerates by making it bigger or smaller to make a person notice and laugh to show their weakness. Oscar Wilde makes us think if it’s really important to be earnest ? The story is about two boys that want to be named Earnest, so because of that they have a double life and they will need to handle the problems

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The importance of being earnest is a satirical play, as such, most of its humor comes from poking fun at some of the customs of the time. One such example is diaries. Algernon, while playing the part of Jack’s mischievous brother Earnest, reveals to Cecily of his emotions and feelings of her. She then proceeds to take out her diary and begins writing all that Algernon is saying. It is a bit irregular to reveal ones diary and then write in it all that is happening while it is still happening. This