| Titre : | The importance of being earnest : notes / | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Christopher S. Nassaar | | Editeur : | Longman | | Année de publication : | 1980 | | Importance : | 64 p | | Format : | 21 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-582-78137-5 | | Note générale : | Bibliography: p. 61-62 | | Mots-clés : | English Litterature | | Index. décimale : | 822 Littérature dramatique anglaise | | Résumé : | Bibliography: p. 61-62
This paper links Oscar Wilde‘s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, to aestheticism, the movement to which Wilde belonged. It explores the idea of performance, specifically, how the main characters’ personalities both change and remain unchanged within these performances. The first goal is to establish Algernon and Jack as opposite characters who are both artificial because they both put on a performance, or pretend to be Ernest. It then aims to demonstrate that artificiality should be morally neutral because every human being is required to be artificial in life. After coming to this realization, we are able to disregard the characters’ artificial natures and finally conclude that Jack is moral and Algernon is immoral solely on the basis of their personalities, rather than on any degree of artificiality they display. |
The importance of being earnest : notes / [texte imprimé] / Christopher S. Nassaar . - [S.l.] : Longman, 1980 . - 64 p ; 21 cm. ISBN : 978-0-582-78137-5 Bibliography: p. 61-62 | Mots-clés : | English Litterature | | Index. décimale : | 822 Littérature dramatique anglaise | | Résumé : | Bibliography: p. 61-62
This paper links Oscar Wilde‘s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, to aestheticism, the movement to which Wilde belonged. It explores the idea of performance, specifically, how the main characters’ personalities both change and remain unchanged within these performances. The first goal is to establish Algernon and Jack as opposite characters who are both artificial because they both put on a performance, or pretend to be Ernest. It then aims to demonstrate that artificiality should be morally neutral because every human being is required to be artificial in life. After coming to this realization, we are able to disregard the characters’ artificial natures and finally conclude that Jack is moral and Algernon is immoral solely on the basis of their personalities, rather than on any degree of artificiality they display. |
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