The Importance of Being Earnest Questions and Answers
What is Algernon trying to say in The Importance of Being Earnest when he says, "Lane's views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem as a class to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility"?
By the end of the play The Importance of Being Earnest, has Jack really learned the importance of being earnest?
In The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack and Algernon are brothers and Gwendolen is Algernon's cousin. Are Jack and Gwendolen cousins and getting married?
Justify the title The Importance of Being Earnest.
Compare the relationship of Jack and Gwendolen with that of Algernon and Cecily.
What is the role of women in The Importance of Being Earnest, particularly the role of mothers and single women?
What is Wilde's purpose with the blueberry muffin scene in The Importance of Being Earnest? What does it add to the play?
How are Jack and Algernon similar to and different from each other in The Importance of Being Earnest?
In The Importance of Being Earnest, identify uses of hyperbole.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, how does incongruity lend itself to humor?
How are Jack Worthing's plans to kill off Ernest thwarted in the play The Importance of Being Earnest?
In The Importance of Being Earnest, why is it vulgar to talk like a dentist?
What are similarities between Jack and Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest?
Is Algernon Moncrieff really in love with Cecily Cardew?
What are the problems caused by the use of false identities? Is it possible for a person to succeed with this fraud in today’s society?
In Act 2 of The Importance of Being Earnest, what attitudes toward religion appear in this act?
What is the role of religion in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde?
What is the girls' fascination with the name Ernest and how does it reflect an idealistic romanticism?
What, precisely, is a bunburyist? How are Algernon and Jack both bunburyists?
In what way is Jack's journey in The Importance of Being Earnest similar to that of the Paleolithic shaman/hero, and what is the elixir with which he returns?
Compare the characters of Jack and Algernon in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
How does Algernon treat Lane in Act One of The Importance of Being Earnest? How does this reveal the class discrepancies of the time period?
What is the significance of the muffin scene in The Importance of Being Earnest?
What are some examples of irony in Act 2 of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde?
Why does Jack pretend to be Ernest in the play The Importance of Being Earnest?
What is the meaning of the quote "three is company and two is none" in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest?
In The Importance of Being Earnest, how does the theme of appearance vs reality take place in Algernon's character?
How does The Importance of Being Earnest challenge conventional notions of sex and gender and public and private spheres?
In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon observes, "Women only call each other sister when they have called each other a lot of other things first." How does the development of the relationship between Cecily and Gwendolen bear out this remark? What causes them to bond together? What causes them to behave competitively?
How appropriate is the subtitle "A trivial comedy for serious people" for the play The Importance of Being Earnest?
Please help me analyze the following quotation from The Importance of Being Earnest: Miss Prism: "No married man is ever attractive, except to his wife," Act 2.
Please analyze the following quotation from The Importance of Being Earnest: "I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would
How does the playwright Oscar Wilde present the relationship between Jack and Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest?
Jack and Algernon both create fictional identities for their own convenience in The Importance of Being Earnest. Are there any important differences between their deceptions?
In The Importance of Being Earnest, who is Egeria, and why might Chasuble refer to Miss Prism in this manner?
How does the following line from Lady Bracknell contribute to the humour of the scene in The Importance of Being Earnest? 'Never speak disrespectfully of society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.'
Please analyze the following quotation from The Importance of Being Earnest: " To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness" Act 1
In The Importance of Being Earnest why does Jack Worthing call himself Ernest when he is in London?
How do the cigarette case and tea ceremony in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" help situate the comedy?
How does Oscar Wilde satirize his audience in The Importance of Being Earnest, and what may he be trying to evoke from the audience?
In The Importance of Being Earnest what does Algernon mean when he says, “I keep science for Life” and later connects this idea to Lane preparing the cucumber sandwiches for Lady Bracknell?
What are the main characters' motivations in The Impotance of being Earnest?
Explain the theme of dishonesty in society in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Contrast the play The Importance of Being Earnest with the 2002 film.
Please analyze the following quotation from The Importance of Being Earnest: "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." (Act 3)
Compare and contrast the film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest with the play.
How does Oscar Wilde produce humor in The Importance of Being Earnest?
What are three comic techniques Oscar Wilde uses in The Importance of Being Ernest?
Please analyze the following quotation from The Importance of Being Earnest: Cecily: " It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends, one can endure with equanimity" Act 2.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, why did Lady Bracknell say, "When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind"? Analyze the quote.
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