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Analyze deception, motive, wit, irony, and satire in the first two acts.
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Algernon produces Jack's cigarette case, inscribed from “little Cecily” to “her dear Uncle Jack.” What does the object force Jack to explain?
What does Algernon mean by “Bunburying” in Act 1?
After Gwendolen learns Jack's country address, what does Algernon do with that information?
Why does Jack arrive in Act 2 wearing mourning clothes?
Cecily tells Algernon she has already recorded their engagement, letters, and breakup in her diary. What plot effect does the diary create?
When Jack and Algernon enter during the tea scene, how is the “two Ernests” deception exposed?
Gwendolen says her ideal has always been to love a man named Ernest. What pressure does this put on Jack?
Which fact makes Lady Bracknell reject Jack most sharply in the interview?
Why is Algernon especially willing to pose as Ernest at Jack's country house?
Why do both Jack and Algernon seek a christening in Act 2?
What attracts Cecily to Algernon when he appears as Ernest?
Algernon says, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” How does the epigram fit the play's action?
Lady Bracknell says losing one parent is a misfortune, but losing both “looks like carelessness.” How does the joke work?
Algernon's line “Divorces are made in Heaven” is an example of what comic move?
Miss Prism says, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” What is Wilde mocking?
Lady Bracknell calls ignorance “a delicate exotic fruit” whose bloom can be spoiled. What paradox does this create?
Cecily and Gwendolen politely take tea together while each believes she is engaged to Ernest Worthing. What dramatic irony drives the scene?
Jack announces that Ernest has died just after Algernon has arrived as Ernest. Why is this ironic for the audience?
Chasuble is asked to christen both men as Ernest. What does the audience understand that the ritual does not reveal?
Lady Bracknell's interview asks about income, property, politics, and family before romance. What institution is Wilde chiefly satirizing?
What does Bunburying satirize about Algernon and Jack's social world?
Cecily studies German grammar with Miss Prism but would rather write in her diary and talk about Ernest. What target of satire appears here?
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The Importance of Being Earnest: Epigram and Paradox
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