Mastery Of Epigram And The Aud

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

truth, love/marriage, diary, death, education, illness, Society, ... (Maybe too many groups this way, could perhaps cut them down).

Examples: too many: to be winnowed:

Play on words:

Title: The Importance of Being Earnest

I.5:5 Algernon: "As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte." (Play on the word pianoforte.)

I.12:161 Algernon:"You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest looking person I ever saw in my life." (Play on Ernest and earnest)

II.67ish. Gwendolen: "Mamma, whose views on education are remarkably strict, has brought me up to be extremely short-sighted, it is part of her system; so do you mind my looking at you through my glasses?" (Short-sighted - not looking towards the future and needing to wear glasses)

Plain Wit:

I.33:611 Algernon: "I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

If he should get married he will try to forget that he has done so. To this Jack replies:

I.8:79 Jack: "The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted". Algy's reply (9:82) is an example of an opposite:

I.14:212 Jack: "That ... is the whole truth pure and simple"' Alg: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

I.18:297 To Jack's remark : "You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax." Gwendolen: "Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions." (Outwards ?)

I.20:344 Lady B.: "... Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others."

I.27:496 Lady B: ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: