Part 1. A Comedy of Manners. The Importance of Being Earnest Questions and Answers Graded A+
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Part 1. A Comedy of Manners. The Importance of Being Earnest Questions and Answers Graded A+
How is Wilde making fun of the Victorian rules for entertaining guests?
[Jack puts out his hand to take a sandwich. Algernon at once interferes.]
[Algernon.] Please don't touch the cucumber sandwiches....
Part 1. A Comedy of Manners. The
Importance of Being Earnest Questions
and Answers Graded A+
How is Wilde making fun of the Victorian rules for entertaining guests?
[Jack puts out his hand to take a sandwich. Algernon at once interferes.]
[Algernon.] Please don't touch the cucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially for
Aunt Augusta. [Takes one and eats it.]
Jack. Well, you have been eating them all the time.
Algernon. That is quite a different matter. She is my aunt. [Takes plate from below.]
Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is
devoted to bread and butter.
Jack. [Advancing to table and helping himself.] And very good bread and butter it is too.
- answerHe shows that people will go to great lengths to get around rules in order to
satisfy personal desires.
Which features of a comedy of manners are present in the passage? Check all that
apply.
Algernon. Lane's views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders
don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class,
to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility. - answerAn illustration of class
differences and a commentary on marriage
How does Wilde use Algernon's behavior to make fun of proper behavior or customs? -
answerBy having Algernon behave rudely while Algernon is criticizing Jack for behaving
rudely
Which feature of a comedy of manners is present in the passage?
[Algernon.] Besides, your name isn't Jack at all; it is Ernest.
Jack. It isn't Ernest; it's Jack.
Algernon. You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as
Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You
are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your
saying that your name isn't Ernest. . . .
Jack. Well, my name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case
was given to me in the country. - answerThe differences between country and city life
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