Romantic Love vs Marriage by Maya Brodie-Rafuse https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4 Themes in The Importance of Earnest en-us 2022-01-13 22:34:56 UTC 2022-01-22 00:44:28 UTC hello@padlet.com "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 experiment is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1991345872 Jack/Earnest is speaking to Algernon about his love for Gwendolen, Algernon proceeds to explain how proposing takes away the romance from being in love. Algernon states that if he ever were to get married, he would try to forget the fact that he was. Jack doesn't disagree, and the conversation continues. The quotation reveals Jacks love for Gwendolen, but mostly Algernons feelings toward proposals and marriage. Algernon believes romantic love is better then marriage because there is not anything romantic about being in love. ]]> 2022-01-13 22:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1991345872 "I adore you. But you haven’t proposed to me yet. Nothing has been said at all about marriage. The subject has not even been touched on." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1996894125 Earnest(Jack) has just brought up casually how himself and Gwendolen must get married at once, Gwendolen loves him so much she wants to hear the exact words come out of his mouth. Despite not even knowing the full depth of each others lives, Gwendolen agrees to such without hesitation. Gwendolen is very optimistic about love and is now truly infatuated with Earnest himself and being married to him. ]]> 2022-01-18 02:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1996894125 Ernest, we may never be married. "From the expression on mamma’s face I fear we never shall. Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three. But although she may prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I may marry some one else, and marry often, nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1996911135 Gwendolen's mother has just found out about Earnest proposing, to see if he is suitable for her daughter she sits him in a room and questions him. Earnest was doing pretty good up until she asked about his family and where he came from, having no acceptable answer because he was found in a hand back at a train station, he told her the truth. Quite taken back by this news Lady Bracknell rips her notes up and leaves the room. In the presented quote Gwendolen is telling Earnest now they must never get married. However even though they shall never be married, her love for him won't go away. Gwendolen's love for Earnest go's beyond just the title of marriage and will stay with her throughout all her other marriages.]]> 2022-01-18 02:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1996911135 "There’s a sensible, intellectual girl! the only girl I ever cared for in my life. [Algernon is laughing immoderately.] What on earth are you so amused at?" 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1996917083  Jack is talking about his love for Gwendolen to Algernon, a pessimist towards marriage and proposals. Jack see's it as, you love someone and then you propose to be married. Algernon, who hasn't found anyone to love yet, see's marriage as a business deal more then for pleasure. ]]> 2022-01-18 02:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/1996917083 "Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you?" 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005869211 Algernon (pretending to be Earnest Worthing) has just met Cecily for the first time, as intended. She is beautiful and has just turned 18, as well as the family she comes from has money, which is very handy for Algernon. Before ever meeting Cecily, Algernon kept telling Jack marriage was for fools and is no good. ]]> 2022-01-21 22:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005869211 "On the 14th of February last. Worn out by your entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted you under this dear old tree here. The next day I bought this little ring in your name, and this is the little bangle with the true lover’s knot I promised you always to wear." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005878958 Cecily has this on going fantasy of a knight in shinning armor riding in on a horse and saving her. When she heard her uncle Jack had a brother by the name of Earnest, she let her imagination run so wild she fully convinced herself he had proposed to her and they were to be married. She wrote letters to herself from him, she bought a ring in his name and presented it to herself. She even broke of their "engagement" just to forgive him and get re engaged before the end of the week. Cecily created this whole character and fell in love with him with out actually ever meeting him or knowing what he looked like. ]]> 2022-01-21 22:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005878958 "I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005890372 Gwendolen and Cecily have just found out that both their Earnest's names were not actually Earnest. I decided to include this quote because despite claiming they loved Jack and Algernon, as soon as they found out they weren't engaged to Earnests, they called it off. They were more in love with the name, rather then the person. ]]> 2022-01-21 22:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005890372 "Well, I simply wanted to be engaged to Cecily. I adore her." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005927924 Algernon's new found passion to be engaged to Cecily, but Jack is saying he will not allow it. He is just being petty because the same thing is happening with him and Gwendolen. ]]> 2022-01-22 00:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005927924 "Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don’t care twopence about social possibilities." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005934397 Algernon speaking to Lady Bracknell about Cecily. Lady Bracknell was only willing to accept Cecily into their family once Jack told her Ms.Cardews fortune was a hundred and thirty thousand pounds in funds. ]]> 2022-01-22 00:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005934397 "Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that. [To Cecily.] Dear child, of course you know that Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend upon. But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing that to stand in my way. Well, I suppose I must give my consent." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005934804 When Lady Bracknell married Lord Bracknell she had no kind of fortune but she didn't let that stop her. Despite Algernon having nothing but his debt, she will still permit the marriage. ]]> 2022-01-22 00:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005934804 "To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable." 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005935203 Lady Bracknell is saying that if you are engaged to be married you must get married fast because waiting can give people the opportunity to find out each others characters. this statement is saying how marriage is more for business rather then for love. If you really loved someone, you would love and want to get to know their character. ]]> 2022-01-22 00:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005935203 "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. [Exit Jack in great excitement.]" 7613701 https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005941468 Despite now knowing that Earnests real name was jack, Gwendolen was still devoted to him and still intended on marrying him. No longer was she just marrying him for his name.]]> 2022-01-22 00:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/7613701/pri8zvogc1es96x4/wish/2005941468