Read the passage from an essay on The Importance of Being Earnest.Chasuble. . . . Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he not?Jack. Oh yes.Miss Prism. [Bitterly.] People who live entirely for pleasure usually are.

Miss Prism’s bitter remark is ironic: she implies that people devoted to pleasure do not marry, even though the play presents social rules about marriage in a comic, exaggerated way. Wilde uses this humor to entertain the audience while commenting on marriage and the expectations surrounding it. The passage does not straightforwardly instruct the audience to follow a moral code, so C is the best choice.

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