Part 1: A Comedy of Manners: The Importance of Being Earnest

Question 14 • 0400W.1Y_English 4 Web Recovery* – S2691598

Algernon.

Answer

Algernon holds his servant to an unreasonable standard because he expects the lower classes to be good examples for the upper class.

Algernon excuses his servant after Lane provides refreshments, and the two men chat about marriage and family life.

Lane defends marriage while Algernon jokes about it.

Lane lectures Algernon about his disrespectful attitude.

Part 2: Literary Devices in The Importance of Being Earnest

Allusions and Perspective in Derek Walcott’s Midsummer

Part 1: A Comedy of Manners: The Importance of Being Earnest