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That's Pretty Punny
Title: That's Pretty Punny
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 607 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
That's Pretty Punny
That’s pretty Punny….
Throughout his works, Oscar Wilde shows an interest in aesthetic values. His curiosity about beautiful men is revealed in the Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde continued on his aesthetic trend in The Importance of being Ernest.
In this play, Wilde chose to write about the elite aristocracy, who consider themselves the most beautiful people on earth. Wilde’s play makes fun of aristocratic intelligence, manners, customs and marriages. Wilde decides to …showed first 75 words of 607 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 607 total…call that business”.
Wilde plays games with language to keep his audience alert and interested throughout the play while at the same time making them the target of ridicule. With his creative use of the English language, Wilde points out the ignorance of the rich without their knowing. He calls them lazy because they don’t work and grab at any opportunity that comes their way, even marriages. In the end, Wilde got his revenge.
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