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Literature 110
Jana Carter Parsons
26 April 2016
Drama in Our Lives
Over the short period of time that we have discussed Wilde’s “The Importance of Being
Earnest”, I have noticed that Wilde gets straight to the point in his writing. This has been the
greatest signiticance that I noted during my interpretation of this drama assignment. While
reading poetry and short -ction can be an entertaining process, drama has found its way into
my mind with the greatest of ease. There are some dramas out there that skirt around the true
meaning of the words but overall they portray exactly what they are trying to get across without
disguising the meaning with confusing text.
Wilde’s ability to get the point across is u1erly entertaining to say the least. He takes a
complicated situation and develops the conversation into a carefully placed, yet ru3ed
discussion. Wilde can take a very serious topic and turn it on its head as he writes, “Well, I must
say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was
going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd” (Importance 1.379-382).
His ability to bring comedy into any situation has really intrigued me as a reader. It is always
surprising and entertaining when you are able to link the present to something that was written
over a century ago. Some things just do not change even though we think nothing hass stayed
the same over the past 100 years.
