Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Importance of Being Earnest Essay

So I'm writing about the biggest and most serious lies that are told in the play. This is going to go after Ahlora's paragraph and before the conclusion. My first concrete detail is that Algernon creates an invalid friend Bunbury. My CM is to point out that Algy has done this to escape unpleasant things that happens in his life. The second CM is that he uses the lie of Bunbury to lie to people, for example Algernon tells his Aunt Augusta that Bunbury is why he cant have dinner with her.
The second CD is disturbingly close to the first; Jack has told the people in the country that he has a younger brother called Ernest. My first commentary is about how and why Jack uses Ernest to leave the country and go to town. The second is about the differences between how Jack and Algy use the person they have created. My final CD is how Jack and Algy both pretend to be named Ernest. A CM for this is that they both do this to woo the women they love and if this makes the lies any less severe. The last CM is that by pretending to be named Ernest they are doing possibly the least earnest thing ever.
I'm having some trouble thinking of a good transition from Ahlora's paragraph to mine so if you think of anything that would be nice.

2 comments:

  1. those are good points. To transition you could talk about how my little lies can turn into a big lie... but thats kinda what im writing about so I dont know if that will be to repetative

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  2. Good cd but I would add some more commentary and that it's the highest level of dishonesty in the play.

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