Albs
Which features of a comedy of manners are present in
the passage? Check all that apply.
witty wordplay
Algernon. Lane's views on marriage seem somewhat
lax. Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good
example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as
a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral
responsibility.
- The Importance of Being Earnest,
Oscar Wilde
D
an illustration of class differences
an emphasis on appearances over morality
a commentary on marriage
the differences between country and city life
Intro
Done

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.