Friday, January 28, 2011

Dishonesty in the importance of being earnest

Dishonesty relates to epigrams in the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, because to say an epigram is contradicting to whatever you just said. By saying something is one way then saying that it is something completely different is being dishonest for it is not the truth and is the opposite. In the play they talked about something called bunburying. Bunburying is related to satire of social institutions and dishonesty because, by bunburying you are changing your name and going to a place where people don't know you then telling them fibs by saying that your name is what it isn't. They also took part in the rewards that had come along with their character. By doing that, they had lied and had been dishonest. The play had a main character who went by the name Ernest when his true name was Jack. His bunburying character was a different person than who he actually was. By bunburying he had lived his life as a lie and had deceived many people even though, in the end, his name turned out to actually be earnest in the end. Many people in the story had been dishonest in the pursuit of pleasure. The whole concept of bunburying was related to being dishonest for it used the tool of deception for the user's pursuit of their pleasure. They used their personas to get away from their normal lives and responsibilities to have fun using a different name.
My perception of Oscar Wilde's use of dishonesty in the play was to show the readers that there is no way to escape dishonesty throughout your lives. People will always be somewhat dishonest and a bigger point that I caught from this assignment was that to have a really fun time dishonesty is the key. From now on I am going to lie about  everything to have fun!!I'm just kidding but seriously, Oscar Wilde is definitely trying to say something about having to have some sort of dishonesty in everything that anyone does.

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