Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The nineteenth-century French bourgeois drama exerted a powerful influence on Wilde's dramatic works. He often used this convenient formal framework to structure the comedies of his society. By importing a popular and successful French form, he could hide his attack on official order and speech while making the English public laugh at his own values and beliefs. It is also based on the popular forms of melodrama and farce. In doing so, Wilde maintains the appearances of a genre with which the public is familiar, but subverts it with great subtlety. Because he cannot afford to surprise his audience too much and needs success for financial reasons, his attack is not frontal. However, he manages to combine commercial success with conservative audiences while making fun of the conventions for which these audiences are supposed to live. It is done intelligently so that the audience can ignore the subversive policy in the work if they wish. "The medium is the message" and Wilde uses the form to discuss the content. The choice of gender seems to say "beware of appearances," which is one of the themes of the work. It has all the elements of a comedy of manners: the title delivered as a key point for the procedures, the problem of marriage, the founding child, the idea of double life, the style of highly formalized language,