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The Paradox of Victorian England
Title: The Paradox of Victorian England
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 903 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Paradox of Victorian England
THE PARADOX OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND
Throughout The Importance of Being Earnest, the characters construct a world that is filled with exaggeration, irony, and absurdity; this world’s humor casts a spell on the audience, which paradoxically is created through an exaggeration of the very world the Victorian audience lives in. Thus, Oscar Wilde’s social criticism is made doubly ironic; his criticisms include those of the Victorian ideas of marriage, class, morality, and the appearance …showed first 75 words of 903 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 903 total…Importance of Being Earnest depicts a world that satirizes Victorian England; a world in which the best kept secrets are the ones that everyone knows; a world in which everyone knows very well that their world is not as stable, as exclusive, or as moral as it pretends to be; and a world in which everyone appreciates the vital importance of maintaining at all cost what they know to be the fictions of everyday life.
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