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.
1 comment:
Chue Meng,
Well organized, but make sure that you incorporate and explain the relevance of your textual evidence (and how it pertains to the point that you are making). Overall, I like the quotes you selected, just make them more connected to your main point (of humor in Act III).
-Ms. Johnson
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