In a way, the entire plot that is centered around Jack’s ambitions to marry into the upper class, demonstrates a hypocrisy that shuns and berates the upper class. The lower class on the other hand, are characterized, much like Hallward of The Picture of Dorian Gray, as humble and honest. Throughout the play, there is a clear sense of pretentiousness amongst the upper class these characters hold the thought that they are deserving of their current status and the higher position they sit on.
He utilizes several characters throughout the play to portray this arrogance and snobbish entitlement including Jack and Lady Bracknell. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with an afterword by Ned Halley.With The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde presents a satirical commentary on the arrogance and privilege of the aristocrats. The plays were originally published in book form at Wilde's own insistence, the better to spread his genius wide. Along with Salome, his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story, these immortal plays have continued to pack theatres to this day, and have been adapted for every kind of media. They remain among the most-loved, and most-quoted, of all drama in the English language.
The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husbandand The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles.
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