Importance to be constant

the Importance to be Constant is a comedy of Oscar Wilde.

The original title The Importance off Being Earnest is sometimes translated into It is important to be Constant or Of the importance to be Fidèle , Jean Anouilh made of it a French translation under the title He is important to be Aimé .

The first representation took place the February 14th 1895 with the theater Saint James of London.

This part is regarded as being one of most spiritual of English language. The action proceeds in the England victorienne. The misunderstanding at the origin of the intrigue is based on the main character: Constant (English Ernest), imaginary brother of Jack. The family name of Jack (Worthing) is borrowed in the name of the city in which Wilde remained when he wrote the part.

Interpretation

The title of work is with double direction: earnest means at the same time “serious” and corresponds to the first name Ernest ( earnest and in the same way deciding Ernest .)

The part is built on the " performance" - English term of linguistic theory. The theory of the act " Performatif " (of performance) considers that the word can be an act when certain conditions are joined together. For example, the " I declare you plain by the bonds of the mariage" is " performatif" , it is an act if the person which pronounces it fulfills the function of priest, the two people for whom it is intended are a man and a woman,… The Importance off being Earnest is built on the shift between the act and conventions which govern it. (See the proposal of Jack, alias Ernest). The company does not worry any more but about appearances. It is because they control of them all the codes which the characters can allow to cant the expressions.

On the expression being a Gorgone: " Never puts such has Gorgon…. I gift' T really know what has Gorgon is like, goal I amndt quite sour that Lady Bracknell is one. In any box, she has monster, without being has myth, which is rather unfair." (I never met such Gorgone… I really do not know what a gorgone resembles, but I am certain that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, it is a monster, and without being a myth, which is rather injuste."

And to have recourse to the " nonsense" : disillusioned recognition that the language is inapt to represent reality.

Jack: You say only nonsenses.
Algernon: It is what everyone made.
(Jack: You never talk anything goal nonsense.
Algernon: Nobody ever does.)

It is suggested sometimes that some of the expressions of the part have their origins in the homosexual culture of the time, that the author knew perfectly. Thus, it is claimed that earnest could mean “homosexual” in the slang of the London high society, and bunburying , art of living its homosexuality secretly while seeming to be heterosexual for the world: but we do not have the certainty which these terms were used in this direction before the publication date of the part…

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Simple: The Importance off Being Earnest

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