The Importance Of Being Earnest By Oscar Wild And True West

The epitome of society is easily represented and used within the context of dramatic plays and literature to provide an easier background for the audience to relate including setting, language, character portrayals, and the issue at hand. Moreover, the same theatrical characteristics by writers can be seen at different time periods, but it is nonetheless, effective in communicating toward the audience like The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wild and True West by Sam Shepard. Even though they differ within writing style, character development, setting, and literary elements, both plays have aspects that pull the audience forth into eventually confronting reality. The two works of art consist of a different setting and character build†¦show more content†¦At the time The Importance of Being Earnest was produced, the low Irish playwright, Wilde, had been struggling with supporting his family and mother while balancing his homosexual affairs with Lord Alfred Douglas. There was pressure to have to rely on Earnest to achieve success and elevate the poor Irish family. When the play did become Wilde’s best hit, he instantly became valued and welcomed into the upper class. Yet, Shephard was already a successful professional American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director when he wrote his play. He had decided to experiment with different dramatic form including the classic family tragedy. These authors’ backgrounds gave way to their technique of writing to achieve fame and triumph, strengthening the characters to what readers even today can experience themselves. While both the Importance of Being Earnest and True West both contained a comedic and dramatic genre, True West diverged to additionally accommodate family with realism. The main problem throughout the Importance of Being Earnest was the ownership of the name â€Å"Earnest†. Yet, â€Å"the most earnest looking person [people]† with the name of Earnest are lying to their mistresses to win over their hearts (Jacobus 784). Supplementary, the main protagonists, Austin and Lee, were constantly fighting, but they were skirmishing over scripts, toasters, and pencils! True West’s illustrated aShow MoreRelatedThe Epithet in the Novel Jane Eyre18849 Words   |  76 PagesINTRODUCTION The present course- paper is devoted to the comprehensive study of stylistic device – the epithet in the literary work â€Å"Jane Eyre† by Charlotte Bronte. The topicality of chosen by us theme lies in the fact that a human being perceives the reality by means of various images. These images exist everywhere: in art, in nature, in thoughts, and in speech in particular. Each of us at least ones created an image. We use different means (stylistic expressive means and devices) to achieveRead MoreExploring Corporate Strategy - Case164366 Words   |  658 Pagesplanning the use of these cases within programmes, care needs to be taken to balance the time taken on such strategic analysis so as to allow the time required to analyse the main issues for which the case has been chosen. Where the text and cases are being used as the framework for a strategy programme (as we hope they will), it is essential that students are required to undertake additional reading from other sources and that their ‘practical’ work is supplemented by other material as mentioned above