Chue Meng Vang
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
April 10, 2009
Summing IdeasWit, absurdity, and social conventions contribute to the humor of the play a lot. The witty remarks are said at the perfect moments and are very clever. Algernon says the most and the cleverest remarks in the play. "The only way to behave to a women is to make love to her is she is pretty and love to someone else if she is plain."(p.137, Wilde) this is probably one of Algernon's best quotes in the play. "If I am a occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensly over-educated."(p.155, Wilde) This is Algernon's response to Jack saying Algernon is over dressed.
The absurdity of the play is the fact that Jack and Algernon have to live daul identities. This in the end leads them both into trouble with their loved ones since they lied to them and they got them into a fight. Of course it is funny when they have to keep coming up with lies to tell in order to keep their identities secret. Social convention helps out in the fact that Lady Bracknell doesn't like Jack and even interveiws him and he almost passes until she asks him the question about his parents. "Who was your father? He was evindently a man of some wealth. Was he born in what the Radical papers call a purple of commerce or did he rise from the ranks of aristocracy.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Wilde LRJ# 3
Chue Meng Vang
Ms. Peifer
English 10IB
May 10, 2009
Language of Wilde
Wit: Algernon."The only way to behave to a women is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain."(p.137, Wilde)
Satire: Jack."When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one must amuse others."(p.117, Wilde)
Farce: Daul identities of Jack and Algernon being Ernest.
Wilde's commentary on society is that it is very proper and the upper social classes are very different from other people. When it comes to love everything is about what the other person's family was and how much that person makes. Also what the upper class people do for love and how they go about it.
Ms. Peifer
English 10IB
May 10, 2009
Language of Wilde
Wit: Algernon."The only way to behave to a women is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain."(p.137, Wilde)
Satire: Jack."When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one must amuse others."(p.117, Wilde)
Farce: Daul identities of Jack and Algernon being Ernest.
Wilde's commentary on society is that it is very proper and the upper social classes are very different from other people. When it comes to love everything is about what the other person's family was and how much that person makes. Also what the upper class people do for love and how they go about it.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Wilde LRJ# 2
Chue Meng Vang
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
May 5, 2009
Women and Problems
The problems in "The Importance of Being Earnest" strike me as unusual. The disappearance of the sandwiches I don't see as a problem at all, besides the fact that Algeron lied to his aunt about there being no sandwiches because the market ran out of cucumbers. "I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money. "(Wilde, 126) In reality Algeron ate up all the sandwiches. The dual identities are a huge problem because of the fact that Algeron and Jack are in love and that could get them into trouble.
Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell fit into the role of an 1890's women because they are intelligent, proper, and witty. They both speak very properly and have manners like bowing. "Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for improvments, and I intend to develop in many directions."(p.125, Wilde) Gwendolen says this in reply to Jack saying she is perfect, this was a very clever remark. On page 129 Gwendolen says "metaphysical speculation" which is a pretty big and advanced statement, makes her sound very intelligent and well educated. Lady Bracknell is a perfect character from the 1890's due to the fact that she watches over her daughter's love affairs. She has requirements for men for her daughter and look for social standing in a man. She starts to interveiw Jack about it on page 131.
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
May 5, 2009
Women and Problems
The problems in "The Importance of Being Earnest" strike me as unusual. The disappearance of the sandwiches I don't see as a problem at all, besides the fact that Algeron lied to his aunt about there being no sandwiches because the market ran out of cucumbers. "I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money. "(Wilde, 126) In reality Algeron ate up all the sandwiches. The dual identities are a huge problem because of the fact that Algeron and Jack are in love and that could get them into trouble.
Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell fit into the role of an 1890's women because they are intelligent, proper, and witty. They both speak very properly and have manners like bowing. "Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for improvments, and I intend to develop in many directions."(p.125, Wilde) Gwendolen says this in reply to Jack saying she is perfect, this was a very clever remark. On page 129 Gwendolen says "metaphysical speculation" which is a pretty big and advanced statement, makes her sound very intelligent and well educated. Lady Bracknell is a perfect character from the 1890's due to the fact that she watches over her daughter's love affairs. She has requirements for men for her daughter and look for social standing in a man. She starts to interveiw Jack about it on page 131.
Wilde LRJ# 1
Chue Meng Vang
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
May 5, 2009
Algernon
Algernon's ideas on marriage are not very serious. He doesn't see marriage as a very serious thing. He seems to see love as a game and marriage as an end to it. "Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that!(p.116, Wilde) He would say marriage is demoralizing after what Lane said, "I have often observed that in married households champagne is rarly of a first rate brand."(p.116, Wilde)
The tone of the conversation between Jack and Algernon is of a childish tone, especially Algernon's tone. Algernon is a very clever and playful character. He likes to mess with Jack.
"I thought you had come up for pleasure?. . . I call that business."(p.118, Wilde) Algernon says this after Jack says he came to the city to propose, Algernon finds marriage not very fun as mentioned before and he calls it business. Algernon also fools with Jack about Jack's cigarette box that he had been looking for. "Of course it's mine. You have seen me with it a hundred times, and you have no right whatsoever to read whats written inside.(p.120, Wilde)
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
May 5, 2009
Algernon
Algernon's ideas on marriage are not very serious. He doesn't see marriage as a very serious thing. He seems to see love as a game and marriage as an end to it. "Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that!(p.116, Wilde) He would say marriage is demoralizing after what Lane said, "I have often observed that in married households champagne is rarly of a first rate brand."(p.116, Wilde)
The tone of the conversation between Jack and Algernon is of a childish tone, especially Algernon's tone. Algernon is a very clever and playful character. He likes to mess with Jack.
"I thought you had come up for pleasure?. . . I call that business."(p.118, Wilde) Algernon says this after Jack says he came to the city to propose, Algernon finds marriage not very fun as mentioned before and he calls it business. Algernon also fools with Jack about Jack's cigarette box that he had been looking for. "Of course it's mine. You have seen me with it a hundred times, and you have no right whatsoever to read whats written inside.(p.120, Wilde)
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