Title: Importance of being earnest

Subject: Historical background and Characters

Date: 02,04,24

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• Main Ideas
• Key words
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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<aside> ✏️ Notes:

Main lecture notes

Meaningful learning

Victorian Era

Oscar Wilde

Aesthetic movement

Mariage

Hypocrisy of higher class

Arrogance

Prideful action

Manners of Victorian society

Oscar Wilde mocks the societal norms

Investigation like interview

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<aside> 📎 Summary:

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1. Biography
   1. Oscar Wilde is Gay
   2. Aestheticism (art for arts sake)
   3. 1894 England Victorian
   4. Melodrama and comedy of manners,
2. Relations,
   1. Lady Windemere
   2. A woman of no Importance
   3. An Ideal Husband
3. Details
   1. Setting: 1890 London
   2. Climax: None of the mans named Earnest which was learnt by the girls
   3. Antagonist: Lady Bracknell
   4. Victorians care about the appearance of morality than actual morality.
   5. Jack is a hypocrite and a liar but he is an upper-class liar and hypocrite
   6. Symbols;
      1. Handbag: symbolizes the background of one of the character
      2. Christening: Juxtaposing importance of christianity to get christened as earnest
   7. Themes: marriage, class, social expectations, gender roles, deception, fact vs fiction, identity

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