The Duality of Human Nature in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2012, Pages 584-611 | ||
| Author | ||
| Marwa Sami Hussein | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856-1900), the Irish poet and writer, was popular for his dramatic portrayals of the human conditions in the Victorian age, in the late nineteenth century. He became famous, especially when citizens of Britain were able to embrace and appreciate literature. He wrote many poems, short stories, and plays. In his writings he criticized the Victorian society for its negative features, like hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness, double-standards, sexual repression, and class-consciousness. Wilde criticized the Victorians in his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, especially its social aristocratic life, the social class system, the attitudes of marriage, and the duality of human nature. This paper is divided into two sections and a conclusion. Section one deals with an introduction about Oscar Wilde and the Victorian age as a new age which was converted from rural into urban. Also, it sheds light on the Victorian women and their role in that society. Section two tackles the The Importance of Being Earnest and its genre. Moreover, this section analyzes the double identity of human nature in the Victorian age, and the reason behind this duality. | ||
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