The Importance of Being Earnest: A Satirical Comedy
Classified in English
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It is a trivial comedy for serious people. Wilde was at his peak of his success when he wrote this play. This comedy manners also parodies social classes in a witty and intellectual way. It was written in Worthing, England in 1894. It moves between the urban city vibe of London and a more natural country atmosphere of Hertfordshire during the mid-1890s. Wilde uses both locations to mock late Victorian high society and its social customs.
The Plot
The plot is not explained by a narrator, it is resolved around two friends named John and Algernon. John attempts to avoid his social obligations and because he is bored by pretending to be a made-up person called Ernest. In love with the woman called Gwendolen, John as Ernest proposed to her, but the