The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde.json

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By: Oscar Wilde.The Importance of Being Earnest; Oscar Wilde's hilariously scattered tale of mistaken identities, back room engagements, and amourous entanglements brings joy and laughter to its readers more than one hundred years after its original publication in 1895. 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The Irishman was always known for his wit and humor and in this comedy of entanglements he shows us once again. All you have to do is read the title to see that Wilde is already kidding us. If we read it the first time and do not pay attention to it, we may not see anything strange, but if we take a look at the original title, The importance of being Earnest, more carefully, then things change. The literal translation would be The importance of being serious. So, here we see that Wilde plays with the words because it can refer to the name of Ernesto or the fact of being frank, serious ... So we already see that this title has a double meaning and this is reflected in the plot of the work . It is true that it is a comedy of entanglements that contains a hilarious humor and unique phrases that make you think and all this is narrated in an elegant way and with a great class. Very typical of Wilde. However, behind this comedy hides something more because in it is a criticism of Victorian society.I am a lover of this era but we must also recognize that it was a society based on conventions and with very strict codes of morality. Those known as "gentlemen" were men that people admired because of their class and apparent perfection. They did not hide anything and they were very transparent ... or not. Many of these men and the upper class in general lived from appearances and a false seriousness. That image of perfection was, in fact, a lie since many had a secret life, or secret vices, that they tried to hide since, if they were discovered that idealized image that they had of them would break. Wilde criticized this behavior and in this work decides to make fun of this idea of (false) moral. Wilde was also taken by an admirable gentleman, but no one knew of his sexual tendencies and in the end, when his secret was discovered, he was condemned. 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First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's lover, planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show. Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission. Their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexuality was revealed to the Victorian public and he was sentenced to imprisonment. Despite the play's early success, Wilde's notoriety caused the play to be closed after 86 performances. After his release from prison, he published the play from exile in Paris, but he wrote no further comic or dramatic work. The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere. It has been adapted for the cinema on three occasions. In The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Dame Edith Evans reprised her celebrated interpretation of Lady Bracknell; The Importance of Being Earnest (1992) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast; and Oliver Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) incorporated some of Wilde's original material cut during the preparation of the original stage production. 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