The document provides details about Asari Bhavayang's course assignment on analyzing Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest" as a comedy of manners. It includes biographical information about Wilde, definitions of comedy and comedy of manners, and an analysis of how the play satirizes Victorian norms and values through its use of language, irony, farce, and a focus on the flaws and weaknesses of the aristocratic characters. The complex plot and lack of emotion in the characters are also discussed as elements that make the play an example of the comedy of manners genre. References are provided at the end from literary encyclopedias and analysis websites.
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Modern English Literature
· Absurd DramaOC15 RESPONd to this quote #1
Absurd drama is defined by works of drama created during the modern era. It is known as absurd because of how boldly it strays away from traditional ideals. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a play well-known for being apart of the "Theatre of the Absurd". Waiting for Godot is a great example of absurd drama because every element of the play is strange and abnormal. The homelessness and disillusionment is expressed in all aspects of the play; the setting, language, characters, etc. Dictionary.com defines absurd as unreasonable, illogical, and inappropriate. Modern literature expresses a theme of absurdness of culture. Normalcy is no longer a thing and the elements of modernism consists of something disturbing. In Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is absurd because it exposes dysfunction within the household. It is also absurd to think that the pure and innocent house wife could be a sexually pleasing mistress to many men; nevertheless, make her own money doing so.
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Absurd drama was mostly written in the 1950's and 1960's. The term was first defined as the human situation as basically meaningless and absurd. Whereas traditional theatre attempts to create a photographic representation of life as we see it, the Theatre of the Absurd aims to create a ritual-like, mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams. The focal point of these dreams is often man's fundamental bewilderment and confusion, stemming from the fact that he has no answers to the basic existential questions: why we are alive, why we have to die, why there is injustice and suffering. Waiting for Godot is a great example of this because it embodies so many elements that are included in the definition or characteristics of of an Absurd drama.
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The Importance Of Being Earnest As A Comedy Of Manners
1. Name : Asari Bhavayang
Roll no :-4
Enrollment No:-3069206420200002
Course:-M.A (English)Sem1
Subject:-Literature of the Victorians
Topic:- The Importance of Being Earnest as a Comedy of Manners
Teacher Name :- Dilip Barad sir
Batch :- 2021-2023
Email :- asaribhavyang7874@gmail.com
Department:- Department of English
2. Oscar Wilde
● He was born at 16 october 1854.
● He died at 30 November 1900.
● He was an Irish poet and playwright.
● After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one
of the most popular playwrights in London.
● He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,
and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual
homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.
3. Comedy
● A comedy is a play with happy ending and aims at
making people laugh at certain follies,
vanities,hypocrisies and weakness of people for
reforming society.
● However, the French playwright Moliere is the best-
known playwright for the comedy of manner.
4. Themes of the Comedy of Manners :-
● Comedy of manners often satirized the middle
and upper classes of people
● Example:-
● The audience who watched these comedies.
These comedies often targeted the
sophisticated and complex code of conduct in
the society which gave more importance to
appearance and outward behaviour, rather
than true moral characteristics.
5. The Importance of Being Earnest as a Comedy of Manners
● Victorian Aristocracy ( especially norms and values)
● Language
● Irony
● Farce
● Satire .
● Complexity of Plot .
● Lack of Emotion
● Focus on Flaws Weakness of Characters
6. Victorian Aristocracy
● The play is an example of comedy of manners as it
makes fun of the behavior of Victorian aristocracy.
● Basic purpose in writing the play was to expose and
prove as a sham the norms and values of the Victorian
aristocracy.
7. ● The language used in the play that is
brilliant on the surface, but it is all deep
within and its shows the emotional and
psychological depth of characters.
Language
8. Irony
● The concept of irony has more than one meaning
● Irony can also mean using words in a way where they mean
the opposite of their usual meaning in a funny way.
● irony can refer to a situation in which something turns out to
have the opposite result from what was expected.
9. Farce
● The play can be a farce, because it is humorous play
involving not real situations.
10. Satire
● Satires are literary works in which human
Immoralities and foolishness are ridiculed.
● The play satirizes the upper class by showing
them to be trivial, judgmental, and having the
wrong priorities.
11. Lack of Emotion
● The play show the lack of emotions to all
the characters.
Focus on Flaws and Weakness of Characters:-
● Wild focus on the Flaws and Weakness of Characters
Complexity of Plot
● The Importance of Being Earnest have plot within plot
and complex situations.
12. Reference
1. "Oscar Wilde - Imdb". Imdb, 2021, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm00928492/.
2. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Comedy of manners".
Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2018,
https://www.britannica.com/art/comedy-of-manners. Accessed 9 February
2021.
3. "The Importance Of Being Earnest As A Comedy Of Manners".
Bachelorandmaster.Com, 2021,
https://www.bachelorandmaster.com/globaldrama/the-importance-of-being-
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4. "What Is Comedy Of Manners | Themes, Characteristics, Examples".
Pediaa.Com, 2021, https://pediaa.com/what-is-comedy-of-manners/.
