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        <title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde's take on marriage is not at all Romantic, but rather...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde's take on marriage is not at all Romantic, but rather caustic and cynical. His famous maxim goes--"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." This is a very complicated statement. On the one hand, marriage is thought of as an irrational decision, but at the same time, it is still a victory of imagination, nonetheless. Wilde's satirical attitude to marriage has generic connotations of Manners Comedy, a form that he...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Wilde trying to say about marriage and why might he be saying...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Wilde trying to say about marriage and why might he be saying this in The Importance of Being Earnest?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:53:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yay!! An Oscar's question!
First he pairs up the character in what you...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yay!! An Oscar's question!
First he pairs up the character in what you would call by weakness and they contrast and mirror each other at the same time.
Males:
Earnest and Algernon (the Earnests)-They are mirrors of each other because Algernon is the typical dandy aristocrat who lives with all style, lives in the city, has no money, no morals, no worries and no consequences.
Earnest is a man with responsibilities, prudent with money lives in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:05:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does Oscar Wilde pairs characters or split characters into two...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Does Oscar Wilde pairs characters or split characters into two contrasting groups?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:06:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's an interesting question, in that the motivations of everyone...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/importance-being/q-and-a/what-main-characters-motivations-impotance-being-103485</link>
        <description><![CDATA[That's an interesting question, in that the motivations of everyone in this play are what push the plot forward.  Not every play is like that; many have external events providing the main push for the action.  But in this play, while there are silly coincidences and events which do move the plot along, the motivations of everyone are so clearly the point of the play that the events seem less important. 
Jack Worthing wants more than one...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:31:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the main characters' motivations in The Impotance of being...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/importance-being/q-and-a/what-main-characters-motivations-impotance-being-103485</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are the main characters' motivations in The Impotance of being Earnest?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:53:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Importance of Being Earnest, The - Novel Test]]></title>
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/importance-being/q-and-a/what-do-you-think-author-satirizes-101429</link>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:08:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do you think the author satirizes in The Importance of Being Ernest?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/importance-being/q-and-a/what-do-you-think-author-satirizes-101429</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What do you think the author satirizes in The Importance of Being Ernest?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:50:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The actual page number will differ depending on the publication;...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The actual page number will differ depending on the publication; however, this quote usually comes approximately nine pages into Act I of Oscar Wilde's play (and because I am getting my version from an anthology of English Literature, it's on my page 640).  Regardless, this quote comes in the middle of the conversation between Lady Bracknell and Jack ("Ernest") Worthing.  Jack, who calls himself "Ernest" in the city, has just asked Gwendolen...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:55:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On what page number can I find this quote in the The Importance of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On what page number can I find this quote in the The Importance of Being Earnest:]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:15:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The real origin of Jack *Earnest* Worthing is revealed at his country...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The real origin of Jack *Earnest* Worthing is revealed at his country house.  This scene is specifically important because all the key characters are present: Jack's friend Algernon was already there trying to pry on Cecily and pretending to be Jack's brother Earnest.  Gwendolyn (Algernon's cousin) was there as she was looking for Jack (whom she thought was named Earnest). Lady Bracknell shows up on the scene looking to get Gwendolyn, her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 1 Aug 2009 08:08:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Show how the complicated plot is resolved in "The Importance of Being...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Show how the complicated plot is resolved in "The Importance of Being Earnest".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 1 Aug 2009 01:33:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:32:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare Wilde's life to every act of "The Importance of Being Earnest".]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/importance-being/q-and-a/comparison-between-wildes-life-importance-being-92101</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Compare Wilde's life to every act of "The Importance of Being Earnest".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:29:01 PST</pubDate>
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How does the play concern the social actions and behavior of members...]]></title>
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How does the play concern the social actions and behavior of members of a highly sophisticated upper-class society?
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:40:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[well oscar wilde gave a very true description of the people of the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/importance-being/q-and-a/what-degree-plays-satire-still-relevant-78111</link>
        <description><![CDATA[well oscar wilde gave a very true description of the people of the society and his satires are very relevent even for the society we live now a days as well.. people were materialistic , greedy , selfish, mean and then at the same time pretended to look good , so wilde did a work of disclosing the true reality of the victorian society...If we look around there are many people who care for the appearences rather than the spiritualistic...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:42:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't know what examples the aristocracy could set for poor people...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't know what examples the aristocracy could set for poor people other than maintain the status quo.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:54:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Algernon, in his infinitely contradictory ways, was summoning Lane's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Algernon, in his infinitely contradictory ways, was summoning Lane's moral values and condemning them whereas he had no values of his own. What is funny about that statement is that it was the aristocracy (back then) who was viewed as the people whose job was to "set the example".  Since Algernon cannot possibly do that, he once again twisted it all around and basically said about Lane's class what people said about his "What is the value of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:33:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Whoah! This would be a thesis on its own, so I will give you the most...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whoah! This would be a thesis on its own, so I will give you the most important points. HOWEVER- The book that you might want to Google which will have way much more juicy stuff is Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde; Richard Ellman's Oscar Wilde, and his own Grandson, Merlin Holland's book "The Irish Peacock and the Scarlet Marquess: When Oscar Wilde went to trial" as well as H.Montgomery Hyde's "The Trials of Oscar Wilde".
Those...]]></description>
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