Escaping Victorian Society
Tyrianna Green
Dr. Barker
English 1302
19 October 2012
Breaking Free From Society Walls
Today's generation of men and women live among society with little to no restrictions at all. However, in the past, people were held to higher intolerant social values which fixated on mainly social status, responsibility, and religion. In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde uses the women's dairies and the men's alter egos to escape their dull and confined lives in Victorian society. Both Cecily and Gwendolen, use diaries to document romantic and pleasurable encounters with their lovers. Meanwhile, Jack and Alergnon use different aspects of themselves and create alter egos ...
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of what this society expected of women. These ladies are both of high social classes, headstrong, intelligent, and persistent, which made them the type of women men sought out to marry. Cecily Cardew, for instances, is raised in a country setting with her guardian Jack Worthing and Miss Prism, both of which pressures her to do activities she tries to avoid. As a result of her dull routine life, she engages in a romantic fantasy world where she is imagines being engaged to Jack's mischief causing brother, Ernest.
CECILY:....And this the box which I keep all your dear letters. [Kneels at table, opens box, and produces letters tied up with blue ribbon.]
ALGERNON: My letters! But my own sweet Cecily, I have never written you any
letters.
CECILY: You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest. I remember only too well that I was forced to write your letters for you. I always wrote three times a week, and sometimes oftener.
ALGERNON: Oh, do let me read them, Cecily?
CECILY: Oh I ...
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