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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
lighthearted
medium-paced
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Thank you Oscar Wilde for expressing your genius through words and for leaving us the better for it.
I loved reading this book while waiting in line for the Toronto Film Festival movies to start..... I have so many nuggets from my recent indulgence of Oscar Wilde's witty, fun, original, and rhythmical play, "The Importance of Being Earnest".
Every phrase and expression is a thought worth enjoying and applying to our life today. The play on words, the glittering conversation, the unexpected turn of phrases, it's deliciously clever and a classic it remains forever. I've made a note of catching the play someday!
You must simply just read the play - it's only 3 acts. It is short and sweet and the use of language is pure and unique. I took away some humor, some irony, a lot of truth and a lot of pure delight in the expression of how I wish English were still spoken today.
Some of my absolute favorite quotes:
- I don’t play accurately—any one can play accurately—but I play with wonderful expression.
- The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.
- The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
- I have always been of the opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
- Relations are simply tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- All women become like their mother. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
I loved reading this book while waiting in line for the Toronto Film Festival movies to start..... I have so many nuggets from my recent indulgence of Oscar Wilde's witty, fun, original, and rhythmical play, "The Importance of Being Earnest".
Every phrase and expression is a thought worth enjoying and applying to our life today. The play on words, the glittering conversation, the unexpected turn of phrases, it's deliciously clever and a classic it remains forever. I've made a note of catching the play someday!
You must simply just read the play - it's only 3 acts. It is short and sweet and the use of language is pure and unique. I took away some humor, some irony, a lot of truth and a lot of pure delight in the expression of how I wish English were still spoken today.
Some of my absolute favorite quotes:
- I don’t play accurately—any one can play accurately—but I play with wonderful expression.
- The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.
- The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
- I have always been of the opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
- Relations are simply tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- All women become like their mother. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
I just love it! Since I was a child, I hadn't read theater, and I had forgotten how wonderful this genre is. The Importance of Being Earnest suddenly reminded me. Wilde was a genius who, using comedy, could express his serious point of view on themes like the remarkable social-class differences during the Victorian period. This is, by far, a lovable, enjoyable, ageless masterpiece.
Such a delightful, nonsensical story. One of my favourites.
comecei numa ma vontade da porra pq vou apresentar um seminario sobre essa peça, mas acabei curtindo!!!! acho que meio que acaba sendo um manual? de como a sociedade da epoca se comportava e ele faz criticas muito bem humoradas sobre!!! eu gostei
funny
hopeful
mysterious
relaxing
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated