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10C Sarcasm in The Importance of Being Earnest, Making fun of high…

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        Lady Bracknell "Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself . . . And now I have a few questions to put to you, Mr. Worthing. While I am making these inquiries, you, Gwendolen, will wait for me below in the carriage."
      - During her conversation with Jack, the lady gave priority to the family background without considering the education and other abilities that Jack had. She even did not consider the love that existed between Jack and Gewendolin.
        
        Then, Lady Bracknell notice that Cecily had money and she predicts that the cash must have come from her boyfriend Algernon and stands ready to support their marriage.
        
        Both Cecily and Gewendolin are ready to marry their boyfriends only because of their name “earnest” as opposed to what they feel for them.
- - - - For her, getting married to the right person with high status is everything, however as she said, she's not in favor of long engagements because then people have the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage.
- - - - However, neaither of them was called Ernest
        
        It´s superficial how they only pursue for the man with the name Ernest, rather than the man itself
  - - - When we think of a passionate love, most people don't think of celibacy.
        
        Celibacy means the opposite of passionate
        
        It´s nearly impossible to have a passionate romance when you´re celibate during a relationship