I think Michael Vance makes very valid points in his
reaction. He supports his ideas very well with quotes from the
play. I agree totally that Oscar Wilde was definitely attacking the role
of marriage and making it comedic. He took the idea of marriage being
sacred and all about true love and romance and presented it to us as something
very shallow and easy........as long as your name is Earnest. - Brittany
Vance’s
analysis of Wilde’s play is in my opinion quite accurate, I agree with the fact
that Wilde does a great job pointing out the soullessness and simplicity of
marriage in his time. What puzzles me though is the question of marriage still
being this way in today’s world, although the lenience of class/race/ethnicity
between two partners has grown greatly, has marriage really changed from what
it used to be? Todays divorce rate in the United States is continuously
estimated to be about 50% of marriages, doesn’t that seem like a similar amount
that would be estimated if divorce was as socially acceptable during Wilde’s
lifetime as it is today? - Kimon
Vance references Lady Bracknell’s visit to a woman who was
recently widowed, and how she looked “altered.” We then read on to find
out that “altered” in this instance refers to looking better and even appearing
younger. So Wilde is satirizing marriage by stating that without it we
can actually posses more youth and virility. Finally, Wilde makes satire
from the mere idea of proposing marriage. Vance states that “for both
women, marriage to anyone with another name would have been inconceivable even
though they freely professed great love for the men who had asked them for
their hands” (“Notes on Love and Marriage”). With this I believe Wilde
was showing the flaws in what society deemed were important factors in choosing
whom one should Marry, and Vance is pointing out that this was Wilde’s intent. - Hans
To
conclusion when you think just like Jack, Gwendolen, Cecily and Algernon,
believe they find their perfect match just take a look closely to yourself
and then to your partner this is important and let’s work in be happy because
you are the only one who have the open the door.. Just like in the
original play and some point of Michael Vance’s analyze the only fact we are
human being at least one moment of our life we tell more the teen lies for day.
Guy remember women know that half whatever we say is not truth also we know
that we can’t understand the women neither. Please don’t try to understand the
women doing this to yourself. A marriage is something very serious and we need
to stop and think. - Abel
The
blog is about how love and marriage isn't such a beautiful thing but it is a
source for suffering. "In other words: As uncertainty is the basis for
romance, once marriage is proposed, romance ends"(Vance).
Oscar Wilde's views on marriage may be that if one marries, they cannot love
again or love forever. Oscar Wildes is satire meaning he is making fun of
something serious in the society. The way he does it is that in the novel, both
Gwendolen and Cecily only wants to marry a man by the name of Earnest. Oscar
Wildes is making fun of the institution of marriage by turning into serious
matters into something funny and ridiculous. - Ellen
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