Importance of Being Earnnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People .pptx

" Importance of Being Earnest " play written by Oscar Wilde. It is genre of "Comedy of Manner".

1. Importance of Being Earnest Department of English, MKBU Presented by:- Nishtha Desai, Khushi Goswami

2. 01 02 COMEDY OF MANNER CHARACTERS ABOUT PLATWRIGHTER T able of contents INTRODUCTION 03 04 05 SUMMARY 06 THEMES 07 SYMBOLS 08 CONCLUSION

3. Introduction ● It was first performed in 1895 at St.James Theater, London. ● It is three act play. ● There are two parts in every play. ● It represent double identity of man. Published: 14th February, 1895 Title :- Importance of Being Earnest; A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Genre: Social comedy; comedy of manners; satire, intellectual farce Setting: Mayfair, London

4. ● Comedy of Manners is a form of Comedy which is used to ridicule the manners of the people to bring laughter. ● It is known as a ‘ Restoration Comedy ‘ or or ‘Anti- sentimental comed ● The Father of Comedy of Manner is William Congreve. ● It is satire on the elite class people and t heir life styles. ● It represent vulgarity. What is Comedy of Manner?

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6. About Playwrighter ●Full name: Oscar Fingal O Flahertie wills wilde ●He was an Irish Poet and Playwriter. ● His famous works : ‘’The picture of Dorian Gray’’ ● It is a novel form published in 1890. ● His two comic masterpiece: ‘’ Lady Windermere’s Fan’’ which was published in 1892. ‘’Importance of Being Earnest’’ which was published in 1895.

7. Characters

8. Summary This play divided into 3 acts. Each has 2 part. Our 1st act starting as Algernon Moncrief plays the piano in his Fashionable London Flat. his butler lane prepared tea service for his aunt (lady Bracknell). Surprisingly lane announced arrival of Mr. Earnest Worthing was a friend of Algernon. Jack inform to Algernon he is in town bcz he wants to proposed Gwendolen (algernon’s aunts daughter). Algernon confronts Jack about his double life, revealing a cigarette case inscribed by Cecily. First jack doesn’t agree with him later on algernon says about cigarette case and he also awarded about his double life than after he says about cecily. Algernon’s suspicion that his friend is a practiced “ Bunburyist ,” or a person who uses deception to shirk his duties.

9. Summary When Gwendolen, Jack’s love interest, arrives with her mother, Lady Bracknell, Jack proposes to her. Gwendolen loves the name "Ernest," but when Lady Bracknell learns Jack was found in a handbag as a baby, she forbids the marriage. Algernon, intrigued by Cecily, decides to visit her. At Jack's country estate, Algernon pretends to be "Ernest" and proposes to Cecily, who has long fantasized about marrying a man named "Ernest." When Gwendolen arrives, both women realize they've been deceived by the men, who then agree to be christened as "Ernest." In the final act, it’s revealed that Jack is actually Algernon’s brother and that his real name is, in fact, Ernest, fulfilling Gwendolen’s wish. Both couples are happily engaged, and Jack learns the importance of his name.

10. Through the use of Puns, Paradox and Epigram dickens sees the Victorian Hypocrisy The pursuit of marriage C haracters are found behind the class conflict reputation . Hypocrisy and Victorian Morality The art of deception Fact vs. Fantasy “Does art imitate life or life imitate art?” Identity and D eception Characters adapted faules identity, cheat themself Themes

11. Deception Escapism Negotiate Tense Social Situations Romantic Fantasy Tea Services Cigarette case Dual Identity Dairy Benbury Earnest Symbols Cicily

12. R eferences :- “The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde.” Project Gutenberg , https://www.gutenberg.org/files/844/844-h/844-h .htm. Accessed 2 October 2024. Wilde, Oscar. “The Importance of Being Earnest: Study Guide.” SparkNotes , https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest /. Accessed 2 October 2024. YouTube video's https://youtu.be/enPabfyMhqk?si=e5VNo2M1sfYG0Y3_

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