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Act I TIOBE (3) Absurdity and mockery of manners (Mocks victorian manners,…
Act I TIOBE
3) Absurdity and mockery of manners
Desire to shock
Mariage romance vs business, social device = deliberate subversion of conventions
Visually absurds
Ironic
Visual comic of Algy makes tea & eat it all
Algy doing only what wants : eats cucumber sandwiches, plays piano,
Mocks victorian manners
Algy critics Lane's manner yet he worse just hidden = hypocrisy
Mockery of manners (victorian etiquette) vs hedonism
1) Appearance> victorian man
forbidden desires, sexual hypocrisy
What society represses
Victorian conservative =/ sex opened
Empty dialogue in surface
no character alone = repression, tension = cannot penetrate MEANING of dialogue
parodies "absolute truth" , certainty
Aphorism
2) Duality of the man bc of Victorian rules
Repression of who one is - hurts
Inferred hint never confirmed
Cf Oscar Wilde homosexual
suffering from conventions - guilt & shame bc "wrong"
Need double life - Bunburying
Tension pleasure /duty = duality of man
Private depraved life vs controlled social life
Earnest / jack, Earneast/ernest
"som1 who has secret alias in order to escape, originate LDN, vict era, cf homosexuality
Excuse absences
Excitement of breaking taboos - hedonism
belief in pleasure as highest good a man can get
CCL
"serious play about trivial matters or trivial play about serious matter"
Realistic content but extreme character