# data[].attributes.headline
Pollyanna, Luiza, Amanda, e Maria Eduarda

# data[].attributes.subject
Pollyanna, Luiza, Amanda, e Maria Eduarda

# data[].attributes.body
Chris

Eduarda Seferin

Eduarda Flores

# data[].attributes.body
Hiago

Gui

Elo

Alice

# data[].attributes.body
He wishes to marry Gwendolen

He wants to fit in with the high society

# data[].attributes.body
His motivation is ambiguous, it's not clear if he wants to help his friend or make fun of him. Or if he is actually interested in Cecily

# data[].attributes.body
He seems to be dandy, cynical, and greedy. He is also rich and spoiled, overprotected by his auntie

# data[].attributes.headline
Gwendolen is the cousin of Jack's best friend Algernon, she wants to marry a man named Ernest (Jack). Her mother forbides her of marrying Jack after knowing about his lack of family

# data[].attributes.subject
Gwendolen is the cousin of Jack's best friend Algernon, she wants to marry a man named Ernest (Jack). Her mother forbides her of marrying Jack after knowing about his lack of family

# data[].attributes.body
He's a elegant and fine young man

He's rich

He seems to be funny and optimistic

He seems playful

He's loyal, but shady

He has blue eyes

# data[].attributes.body
She has a fascination with "Ernest" desires to live a romance with him to "fix" him.

# data[].attributes.body
He is very close to Jack, at the point of teasing him all the time, they seem to be very comfortable around each other.

It's different with Cecily, he doesn't seem to be very close to her, it's more of a crush growing or a platonic love (in his mind)

# data[].attributes.body
Light brown hair, big doe eyes, soft features

Imaginative, fanfiqueira, passionate

# data[].attributes.body
Argernon: they are best friends and have a close connection. They banter and have fun together.

Gwendolen: they want to get married and they love each other. He lies to her about his identity

Lady Bracknell: she's Gwendolen's mother and Jack wants her to trust him. She does not like him.

Cecily: his ward

# data[].attributes.body
"Then your wife will. You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none." P.18

"Divorces are made in heaven" P.11

"My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasure in the smallest degree"

# data[].attributes.headline
Gwendolen has  qualities of conventional Victorian woman, artificial and pretentiou. She is fixated on the name Ernert that “inspires absolute confidence,”; she is similar to her mother in taste e morality. It serves as a metaphor for the preoccupation of the upper-middle classes with appearant of virtue and honor.  

# data[].attributes.subject
Gwendolen has  qualities of conventional Victorian woman, artificial and pretentiou. She is fixated on the name Ernert that “inspires absolute confidence,”; she is similar to her mother in taste e morality. It serves as a metaphor for the preoccupation of the upper-middle classes with appearant of virtue and honor.  

# data[].attributes.body
"Uncle Jack" is her guardian. Cecily appears to find him boring and serious.

Miss Prism is Cecily's governess and wants Cecily to be a virtuous woman.

Gwendolen and her could be considered rivals as they are both interested in the "same" man.

She is fascinated with "Ernest" and wants to fix him (no, really, she can).

# data[].attributes.body
GWENDOLEN. Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

# data[].attributes.body
"CECILY

You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest. I remember only too well that I was forced to write your letters for you. I wrote always three times a week, and sometimes oftener."

"CECILY

You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love some one whose name was Ernest. [ALGERNON rises, CECILY also.] There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not called Ernest."

[...]

"ALGERNON

[...] But seriously, Cecily... [Moving to her]... if my name was Algy, couldn't you love me?

CECILY

[Rising.] I might respect you, Ernest, I might admire your character, but I fear that I should not be able to give you my undivided attention."

# data[].attributes.body
CECILY.

Do you suggest, Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement?

How dare you? This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners.

When I see a spade I call it a spade.

GWENDOLEN.

[Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that

our social spheres have been widely different.

# data[].attributes.body
To increase her social status, but her main goal is to see her daughter Gwendolen marry well

# data[].attributes.body
Lady Bracknell is snobbish, arrogant, an unpleasant presence to be around, she cares for her social standing and values family lineage and wealth more than anything else

# data[].attributes.body
Algernon's aunt and the mother of Gwendolen, she has no interest in forming meaningful bonds with the people around her and is more concerned with getting everything she wants

# data[].attributes.body
"Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that."

"What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That’s all that can be said about land."

"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
The aesthetic of the Image: [world] cinema clips

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) by Oliver Parker, Clip: Lady Bracknell calls on Algernon

# data[].attributes.body
Jack talks about his "aunt" and the quote is filled with absurdities. (pg 14)

# data[].attributes.body
Jack doesn't know Algernon is pretending to be his brother. The moment Cecily tells him his brother is alive, it is a shock. (pg 55)

# data[].attributes.body
ACT I

"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in

love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may

be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The

very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try

to forget the fact." - Stituational irony

ACT II

"Of course I admit that the faults were all on my side. But I must say that I

think that Brother John's coldness to me is peculiarly painful. I expected a more enthusiastic welcome, especially considering it is the first time I have

come here." - Verbal Irony

ACT III

"Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere

else at present. In fact, Bunbury is dead" - Dramatic Irony

# data[].attributes.body
Jack finds out he is Algernon's brother. (pg 103)

# data[].attributes.body
ACT 1

Verbal Irony. Gwendolen warns him right of the top and, well his intentions fits the warning.

# data[].attributes.body
Act I - Dramatic irony

"Jack: Oh, that is all right. Cecily is not a silly romantic girl, I am glad to say."

Act II - Verbal irony

"CECILY: I don't like German. It isn't at all a becoming language."

"CECILY: I wish Uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man, his brother, to come down here sometimes. We might have a good influence over him, Miss Prism. I am sure you certainly would. You know German, and geology, and things of that kind influence a man very much. [CECILY begins to write in her diary.]"

Act III - Verbal irony

"GWENDOLEN. But we will not be the first to speak.

CECILY. Certainly not.

GWENDOLEN. Mr. Worthing, I have something very particular to ask you. Much depends on your reply.

CECILY. Gwendolen, your common sense is invaluable. Mr. Moncrieff, kindly answer me the following question. Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brother?"

# data[].attributes.body
Dramatic Irony because the audience is aware of the character identity

# data[].attributes.body
ACT 3

Situational Irony

That’s when we - the audience - are made aware that his name is ACTUALLY Earnest, but Gwendolen acts as of she knew all along