Importance Of Being Earnest
The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde was written during the 19th Century, when the upper class was growing in number and wealth. ... He was poking fun at the people who had little of importance to their bidding. ... Wilde uses his characters such as Algernon and Uncle Jack (who turns out to be Earnest) as vehicles to emphasise his message. ... In The Importance Of Being Earnest he pieced many of these techniques of satire, these being humour, exaggeration and irony, together to create a theatrical play that pokes fun of the 19th century upper class. ... “You have invented a very useful younger brother called Earnest… I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury”. ... ” Wilde uses a little bit of exaggeration but not much for he is trying to express the relationship accurately, this being trivial and dull. In the original, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Wilde wrote 4 Acts but had to cut it down to 3 due to his producer. ... This is expressed clearly in the Gribsby episode, (Algi is pretending to be Uncle Jack’s Brother Earnest, who owes the Savoy Hotel Ltd. ... Wilde was masterful at the way he has composed this theatrical play The Importance Of Being Earnest.