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An analysis of Oscar Wilde's play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," that demonstrates how sharply satire makes sharp social points. The paper discusses the absurd complications of the play and living in a fictitious world.

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""The Importance of Being Earnest" satirizes the importance of living in a socially fictitious world. Oscar Wilde's well-know comedy mocks social absurdities and individual traits that thrive in superficiality. Ethical opportunism fuels the satire and epigrammatic wit. All the absurd complications of the play are built upon the desires of two young men to marry two young women who in turn desire to marry only men named Ernest. Jack and Algernon, the male leads in Wilde's comedy, cannot distinguish between..."

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