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Jack Shen Dr. Quaino English Honors 3.23.17 Miss Gwendolyn Fairfax While Oliver Parker depicts a vivid character named Miss Gwendolyn Fairfax from the book The Importance of Being Ernest who has a perfect performance in the film, Gwendolyn provides opportunities to discuss ideas and tout the New Woman near the turn of the century. Parker successfully develops and forms a much more complex character by giving out more detailed decorations and more supportive information such as tattoo, background description, and appearance and style. The readers can have further impression by watching the entire film, at the same time, they can have basic cognitive of the character. As the film presented, Miss Gwendolyn Fairfax is born in rich which means that she is undoubtedly confident, smart, worldly, and experiencing a extravagant life. From the scene that Jack is being tested by Lady Bracknell to determine whether …show more content…

The film uses flashback to reveal that tattoo when Gwendolyn realizes Ernest is actually called Jack. Tattoo symbolizes as criminals, sailors, the underworld and native peoples, in other words, having tattoo on body usually accompany with discrimination. The fact that Gwendolyn actually (engrave) the name of Ernest infers her deep love and propound missing which result the great anger after Gwendolyn recognizes Ernest has another name. “I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to anyone.” “Let us go into the house. They will hardly venture to come after us there.” Marrying a man called Ernest seems to be founding principal of their lives. She is fixated on this name, Gwendolen is so caught up in finding a husband named Ernest, whose name, she says, “inspires absolute confidence,” that she can’t even see that the man calling himself Ernest is fooling her with an extensive

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