A critical analysis of the play, "Ernest"
Title: A critical analysis of the play, "Ernest"
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 1079 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
A critical analysis of the play, "Ernest"
English Written Task 4
* Algernon's commentary on the idle rich.
Algernon talks about the "lower" classes and their responsibility or duty to society. In Algernon's following statement, Oscar Wilde has cleverly set the character up to portray the self-righteousness of the Upper Class (to the audience) at the same time as letting him speak his mind about the lower classes. The quote from Algernon regarding classes is very early on in the play; "...Really, if the …showed first 75 words of 1079 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1079 total…little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present." (Act 3, Page 349)
Finally, the last way a year 11 student may relate to the play is, if they've discovered any growing up at all, that being truthful really IS important, because I do not know of a single year 11 student who has never experienced a mix up similar to the situation portrayed in the play.
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