Humorous Wedding Essay

How could you Gwendolen even consider marrying Earnest? You believe a girl should be able to fall in love and marry any man of her choice, regardless of his social status. But I am the one who will decide whom you marry and when you are ready to marry, you shall have no say in it. Love is not a factor in marriage, nor is the opinion of the children. It is even acceptable for a young woman not to even meet her future husband before marriage. Marriage should be – above all – a mark of social status. An alliance of social security, property, ancestry and wealth combined to make marriage a business proposal that unites power. Bloodlines and wealth are more important than love and is the only reason a woman should marry. Marriage is a loveless duty

But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing that to stand in my way. I was a social climber set in my ways, determined to stop at nothing to become a part of the aristocracy. I may have deceived Lord Bracknell into marrying me, with a short engagement, but I did not want to spend my life on my knees cleaning the houses of the rich aristocracy. So I set about improving my lot in life by marring well and not allowing something like love to steal away my focus. It is easy for you Gwendolen, you already have the status and the riches, but not the husband. But that is my duty, to find you a husband of high status. I will not allow this Earnest to untie all my accomplishments and lower the status of our family name, all for his love. It is my duty and mine alone to ensure my only daughter a rich and titled husband like the one I ensured myself. I can’t allow you my dear Gwendolen to marry into a cloakroom and form an alliance with a hand bag. Earnest has no lineage, no family background, which is a very serious problem. You may not realise what that means, but it will be Mr Worthing’s undoing. I cannot allow my only daughter to marry into this. You deserves nothing less than the