An individual's attributed characteristics give rise to the transformation of self identity. Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" has both Algernon and Jack taking on the identity of Earnest in order to court their lovers. This act of taking up of the name Earnest is in reality the f...

In the late-nineteenth-century play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde satirizes the society in which he lived, which is now called the Victorian period. This period of the reign of Queen Victoria is characterized by British imperialism and growing power of its empire, extravagance in e...