Sunday, February 14, 2010
Dishonesty
For my first concrete detail, I am going to discuss how the author uses dishonesty to develop the characters in the play. Wilde uses it to give the personality traits and characteristics of Ernest and Algernon to show how their lies contribute to the play and how it gets them out of bad situations. For my second concrete detail, I will discuss how dishonesty reflects Victorian society. The characters do this by living up to the social expectations, even though that means they try to be something they're not, basically by acting fake. Finally for my third concrete detail, I am going to discuss how dishonesty develops the play as a whole. Wilde portrays the idea of dishonesty through dark humor and reflection on the way they lived way back then. It also shows the satire on social expectations and marriage throughout the entire book. The next paragraph will talk about the different levels of dishonesty.
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That is great! good job. I think that will turn out to be a great paragraph.
ReplyDeleteNice points. A good transition from my paragragh to yours or vise versa could be a little something like this. " All characters use dishonesty in one way, but how they use it and the reasons they use it because of the situations in the Victorian era are all different."
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