Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Text 20 - The
importance of
being earnest
- Contexts of production
- Cecily and Gwendolen are having
afternoon tea in the garden of Cecily's
house. They both believe (Mistakenly)
that they are in love with the same man
- Audience are fance of
Oscar Wilde's work or
of literature and plays
- At the start the girls are polite to
eachother, although still filled with
bitterness, this then moves onto tauning
eachother and revealing their true hatred
- Play script
- The purpose is
to entertain its
audience
- Form and Structure
- Italics at the beginning of the text give
the text a sense of place and formality,
shows a higher class setting
- Word
choice and
Grammar
- The long pause written in
italics as a stage dircetion
highlights the akwardness
between the women
- The interjection and
excplamation mark
shows Cecily's
suprise in gwendolins
lack of knwledge
about the countryside
- Stage directions show how
she speaks aside to the
audience, important as it is
unnaturalistic
- Use of second name basis
show they are not personal
friends