The Importance Of Being Earnest Literary Analysis

In the Importance of being Earnest, there are so many different literary elements that are describing the culture and lifestyle of the Victorian Era. Many different customs and ideals as well as some norms. Some prime examples of Literary Elements that the characters are using are Satire, Irony, Euphemism, Allegory and Puns. These are the ways that the characters use humor to describe their relationship with one another. First, both Jack and Algernon are creating imaginary people to depict that type of hysterical comedy. They are sort of joking around when Jack and Algernon brought up these made up, fake people. Jack who goes by Ernest is nothing but honest and sincere, he is a liar who is a deceptive and makes up stories. Ernest is a synonym for honest and it sounds like honest. That's why Gwendolyn and Cecily like him because his name sounds like honest.

Secondly, women in the Victorian Era had a certain standard to live up to. However, Gwendolyn unlike Lady Bracknell is not a victorian era. She is

In the book, Lady Bracknell sometimes uses a sarcastic tone when she is speaking, For example: “You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter-a girl brought up with utmost care to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel”? What lady bracknell is trying to say is why would she let her daughter marry a man who is not well groomed, poor, dirty and low class and who doesn’t have very much money. However what’s so weird and ironic is that Lady Bracknell was in the same situation in the past so that means she is talking about herself too. She was the one who was in a poor, dirty, low class family before she got married to a rich wealthy man. Therefore Lady Bracknell is a big hypocrite who only cares about herself. She is an arrogant type of person who thinks that the world revolves around