The Importance Of Being Ernest Vs. The Vitorian ERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, before we started this project all I knew about the Victorian Era was that they built really big/gorgeous houses. Which I know now is not very intelegent! Although from the first day we started looking up info. for our questions, I knew that there was more to this Era than gigantic houses. One of the first google results for "The Victorian Era" was of course all about the amazing queen, (Queen Victoria) who ruled during that time period. Victoria was a very popular queen, but then again, eight people had tried to assassinate her during her reign, so, I dont know if that would be good popular or bad popular... Some of the other most promonint facts that I found almost imediatly was that women and marriage were primerily buisness subjects and bartering tools. Women were treated fairly enough but they didnt have a say in any improtant matter. The main job for middle to upperclass ladies was to raise the childeren and run the household, while the men were probably being vain and lazily smoking their cigars in the den, (Or working prominently at their trade...).

In the play "The Importance Of Being Ernest" the veiws of marriage and women are expressed in a satirical manner. Algernon, who is a fond friend of Jack-Ernest-John Worthing, is the perfect example for the "Ernests"of the Victorian Era. He likes to spend his days Bunburying around the country drinking champagne, smoking and telling all of his tall tales to the new and interesting people he meets. Jack on the other hand, is not vain or very good at telling tall tales! Although he Is a passionet Bunburyist. Jack is one of the hardworking upperclass men that usually worked in banks or law firms and took good care of his family. Although the men had it good in this book and also in real life the women had to be a little more hard core. They played a huge but mostly unotisable part in the Victorian Era, and in "The Importance Of Being Ernest". Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell are exactly the opposite of each other. Lady Bracknell is a faithful god fearing hard working Victorian woman (which is what many upperclass ladies were thought to be like) and her daughter, Gwendolen, is a lovely, youthful, and charming ladie who is a woman but not in the stuck up snobbish way of her mother. Many daughters followed in their mothers footsteps, and many sons followed in their father's. This play brings the Victorian Era into a new light, full of satire and reckless adventure! It shows the people of today that the Victorians' were not small unintelegant figures in history but a prominent educated and sophisticated community.