The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde

The importance of being earnest...

 Ambitious is the last refuge of the failure...

Introduction:-

1] Name:- Oscar Wilde

2] Birth:-1854

3] Death:-1900

4] Occupation:- Author, Playwright

5] Language:- English, French,Greek

6] Literary moments:-

    (Aesthetic moments)

    ( Decadent moments)

7] Notable works:-

     ( The picture of Darian gray)

     ( The importance of being earnest)

                    He was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwright in London in the early 1890s.

   

Play can help to teach literary devices.

                      

# Importance of play in literature:-

        Play is a literary form of writing for theatre which narrates a story with elements of conflicts, tensions and actions through dialogues of characters for dramatic significance. It is divided into acts and scenes the writes present their feelings, emotions and ideas through their characters and make them speak.

Preface:-

            The importance of being earnest, in full The importance of being earnest. A trivial comedy for serious people, play in three acts by Oscar Wilde, performed in 1895 , and published in 1899.

          Oscar Wilde's

     The importance of being earnest

               

                        [1] Act 1

                        [2] Act 2

                        [3] Act 3                              

     
# Themes in the play :- 

1] Duty and Respectability

2] The obscene of compassion

3] Religion

4] Popular Culture

5] Secret lives

6] Passion and Morality

7] Courtship and Marriage

8] Perpetuating the upper class

9] Class Conflict

10] Name and identity

11] Dual identity

# Literary context:-

         Lady Windermere's fan,an ideal husband and A women of no importance are the related plays to The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde.These plays were written from 1892 to 1895. It was the time when the literary career of Oscar Wilde was at the poet and his plays were widely performed on the London stage.     

      These plays shows the characteristics of comedy and drama. These plays are revolving around the same themes as that of The importance of being earnest. The themes include uncertain parentage, the fallen women, wordplay, dark secret, mistaken indentities, and a biting critique of the social standards and morality of the Victorian era. 

 Conclusion:-

                         According to Victorian morals, Lady Bracknell was the most moral character within the play. One of the first examples where she shows the most morality is when Algernon is talking about his invalid friend, Mr. Bunbury, and she shows no sympathy towards the man whatsoever.

Hard times by John Dickens

                  Hard times

"A loving heart is truest wisdom..."

Introduction:-

• Name:- Charles John Dickens
• Born:- 1812
• Death:- 1870
• Occupation:- writer

Notable works:- Oliver twist.

                He was an English writer and critics who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and by the 20th century,critics and scholars had recognished him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. 

PREFACE:-

                Hard times by Charles Dickens is a novel about a school superintendent named Thomas Gradgrind who raises his childhood Tom and Lousia strictly. Hard times is a novel written in the Victorian age by Charles Dickens. This novel shows tyranny and oppression of manufacturers and owners of factories during the 19th century Dicken explores how drastically the industrial revolution changed lives of people particularly farmers.

THEMES:-

1. Fact v/s fancy
2. Industrialsm and it's evils
3. Unhappy marriages
4. Femininity
5. Surveillance and knowledge
6. Fidelity
7. Escape
8. A complate human being
9. Class conflict

   ABOUT HARD TIMES

Hard times:for this Times

        Hard times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era.   

        Hard times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens novels , barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial coketown, generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on19th-century Preston.

                  One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales off his weekly periodical Household Words were lowCritics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulav have mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post- industrial Revolution pessimism regarding workers during the Victorian era. F.R.Leavis, a great admirer of the book , included it but not Dickens's work as a whole - as part of his Great Tradition of English novels.

Conclusion:-

                            The story ends with a glimpse into the future where Mr Bounderby dies alone in Coketown and Mr Gradgrind abandons his fact-oriented and rational philosophy to help poor people instead. Cecilia Jupe, on the other hand, marries and lives a happy life with her own family while Louisa never will have one of her own.