The Importance of Marriage in The Importance Of Being Earnest

The crux in The Importance Of Being Earnest struggles to keep up with their own writing and stories because Jack and Algernon strive to win the loving hearts of two women who, claim to only love men that were called Ernest. They both struggle and gets twisted in a tale of duplicity, impersonation and misfortune. The plot in the story is about John Worthing but he goes by Jack; who is a cheery young gentleman and invents an imagery brother, “Ernest,” who has a mischievous way to towards John but has an excuse to leave his home in a country from this time now to London. Wilde presents serious/humorous views of marriage based on class and gender. For example, Wilde believes that when people tour France nothing bright and wonderful comes from it besides lesbian maid. He felt like the Victorians went through courtship/marriage thinking it would be an easy process. I feel like that Wilde had no reason to talk about the class, marriage, and courtship because those were his own thoughts and assumptions about the Victorians. Though I never been to France I feel like a lot of good would come from it but who knows what Wilde thinks.

Wilde gives us this tone of class in the play of fun and mischief during the first act. Wilde does give the Victorians a hard time, but at the end of the day he critiques their inconsiderateness and he is very bias over the Victorian culture. Jack and Algernon always have the best times in their lives, but are living through masks. Marriage in The Importance Of Being Earnest, have both a primary force that is motivated with the plot as a subject and debate. The nature of marriage is a first time opening of a conversation between Algernon and Lane who is the butler. Algernon is a trendy young man that has to be stylish in public and always worries about his appearance. Jack takes more things serious unlike Algernon which is interesting because Algernon comes from a wealthy class and is living his life full of fashion, but he is also showing his humor and has no respect for society. Jack goes by the rules and has an appropriate manner towards life. They both discuss the nature of marriage of how they shortly communicate about whether a marriage is a material of “business” or “pleasure,” (Wilde Act 1) For example, Lady Bracknell states, “An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be” (Wilde Act 1). Though Lady Bracknell has a list of a few men and has an interview to which she questions Jack about his assumptions of nature and marriage. These ideas reflect the Victorian period with honesty, social and income of character. The whole play is still going on debate whether it is “pleasant or unpleasant” (Wilde act 1) and with nature of marriage. In Poague’s article, The Importance Of Being Ernest, gives us an explanation of Wilde’s irony, Wilde has a serious message about his moral and social views of what is about to be revealed. I felt like Poague’s analysis was very similar to nature of marriage because it focuses on the class, characters, and gender. This gives the claims to help the readers understand why Wilde is serious about courtship, moral, gender and things in his life. Although, Wilde critiques the Victorians in so many ways, he is very happy and uses his tone of humor to his readers.

The Importance Of Being Ernest is foolish because the title explains what the play is really about. Even though the play is about the importance, the play fails by symbolizing it. He does create a humor of enjoyment and is very fashionable. The social roles have a very high culture and flows through the nature of those roles and ideas.

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