Analyse The Importance Of Being Earnest Humor Essay

On “The Importance Of Being Earnest”, Act II lines 1324 to 1446 the sources of humor of these passage are the satirization of the Victorian era norms, violations against common sense, mockery of love and delusion. All of these humorous source are provided by the extravagant author Oscar Wilde in the short passage of 122 lines.
Satirizing the Victorian era an example would be “But pray, Ernest, don’t stop. I delight in taking down from dictation. I have reached ‘absolute perfection’. You can go on.” This concept is humorous because in the Victorian era woman were not supposed to be conceived and act like the way Cecily is acting. Woman were supposed to be innocent, virtuous and biddable; Cecily seem to have some of her virtuous. As the quote had stated she enjoys the flattering remark from Algernon and asks for more her to infatuate her persona in her diary for the future publication of it.

Hopelessly doesn’t seem to make much sense, does it?” Out of the four ridiculously extravagant and inappropriate forms of love when meeting a practical stranger, Cecily only worries about the hopelessness part. This violation of common sense is a hilarious one since the reasons for love come from a stranger who is 11 years older only known by tales without a previous encounter its ridiculous. Mockery of love source fits into this example as well. An extra Mock for the love source is the engagement, dated on “February 14” Valentine’s Day, all lovers Special day when presents are supposed to be given by that special someone and as portraying a late gift on February 15, engagement ring is