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The Importance of Being Earnest;Contents;Background ;Features of Comedy of Manners(风俗喜剧);Victorian era(1832-1902 ) ; Aestheticism;Character Relationship;Writing Features;full of epigrams(警句);verbal irony(言语反讽);Paradox(悖论);pun ;Themes ;1.Hypocrisy of Victorian Morality;;Marriage is one of the main concerns of the characters in the play. Wilde makes fun of the institution of marriage. Marriage is seen as a hypocritical and absurd practice, a tool for achieving social status.;3.The Constraints of Morality;4.The Absence of Compassion;5.Class Conflict;It’s a new sort of the Restoration comedy of Manners. The problems of Wilde’s age are reflected in witty remarks.; Herbert George Wells: More humorous dealing with theatrical conventions it would be difficult to imagine.” Richard Ellmann ranked the play as one having “few rivals in its language”.(英语作品中鲜有匹敌) ; In contrast to many plays of that time, The Importance of Being Earnests plot does not tackle serious social and political issues. George Bernard Shaw:“I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter.’’ -----arguing that comedy should touch as well as amuse;Suggested Essay Topics;My thoughts;