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LIT TIOBE essay, Jack & the "Scotland Yard" over his cig…

- - - - Particularly the superficiality of their romantic pursuits & views on marriage
        
        critiques the institute of marriage
        
        "the only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain."
        
        "..I call that business"
        
        "form an alliance"
      - Superficial & trivial values
        
        Name- Ernest
        
        "nothing annoys people as much as not receiving invitations"
        
        "I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them."
        
        verbal irony too
        
        "I never have any appetite unless I have a button-hole first"
        
        "Well I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
        
        "do you smoke?"
        
        serious matters treated trivially
        
        "Now to minor matters. Are your parents living?"
        
        Jack as an orphan- "seems like carelessness"
        
        "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." -Gwendolen
        
        Social etiquette & manners
  - - - “I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o’clock.”
      - tea argument
  - - - unlike typical verbal irony, the actors of TIOBE present as entirely serious in their words
      - examples
        
        "Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility."
        
        "is is awfully hard work doing nothing"
        
        Gwendolen describing jack as "the very soul of truth and honour" (also hyperbole)
    - - Cecily falling for Algy (thinking he is Ernest)
      - Gwendolen thinking Jack is Ernest
      - algernon writes the address on his shirt-cuff. (reads his shirt-cuff and smiles) last line of Act I
    - - Jack being revealed as Ernest when he was judged for his lineage
      - Jack announcing Ernest's "death" right after "Ernest" goes inside
  - - - "divorces are made in heaven"
      - "in married life, three is company and two is none."
      - "i hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief"
      - "my dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused."
      - "it is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time."
      - "i don't quite like women who are interested in philanthropic work. I think it is so forwards of them."
      - "no woman should ever be quite accurate with her age. It looks so calculating..."
- - - - satirisation of class: emphasis on social etiquette; superficial and trivial values, hypocrisy
        
        verbal irony
        
        titular pun
    - - use of epigrammatic reversal
  - - - rigid social barriers