11
December
2009

The Importance of Being Earnest: How the characters Gwendolyn and Cecily break gender roles?2

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, is a parody of Victorian upper-class families. The humoristic and ironical aspects are concerned with the issues of being sincere, earnest, trivial, worthy, stylish, and worried with appearance, worried with the society aims, the values of marriage, education and also with the role each one has to [...]