Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. This is a revamped essay and final copy I did for my ENG101. It talks about the portrayal of woem in the play.

Portrayal of Women in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest By hitman99 "The Importance of Being Earnest" was written by the famous Irish author, Oscar Wilde. The play represents Wilde´s late Victorian view of the aristocracy, marriage, wit, and social life during the early 1900's. His characters are typical Victorian snobs who are arrogant, overly proper, formal, and concerned with money. Wilde portrays the women on two separate levels, Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen …

…lacked an identity and that is because they have lived such a sheltered life their lack of experiences did not allow for an identity to be created. The irony to their lack of identity is they both imagined and loved a man who only had a name and no identity as well, Ernest. Works Cited Wilde, Oscar. "The Importance of Being Earnest." The Harbrace Anthology of Literature. 3rd ed. Toronto, ON: Nelson Thomson Learning, 2002. 567-610.