The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play written by Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900). It is a farcical comedy whose main two protagonists utilise fictitious personae in the hopes of eluding burdensome social obligations. The play is a satire of Victorian ways, trivialising the social conventions and institutions of late 19th century London such as marriage. The Importance of Being Earnest, with its high farce and witty dialogue, is one of Wilde’s most enduringly popular plays.
Oscar Wilde told Robert Ross that The Importance of Being Earnest's theme was not >a href="http://maressa.edublogs.org/files/2009/12/wilde_earnest_21.jpg">flower delivery Edinburgh but; "That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things of life with a sincere and studied triviality." Indeed, it "refuses to play the game" of the other contemporaneous dramatists such as George Bernard Shaw, who utilized their characters to lead audiences towards grand ideals. It is from The Importance of Being Earnest that the following famous quote pertains; "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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