Gwendolen (looking round.): quite a well-kept garden this is, miss cardew. cecily: so glad you like it, miss fairfax. gwendolen: i had no idea there were any flowers in the country. cecily: oh, flowers are as common here, miss fairfax, as people are in london. gwendolen: personally i cannot understand how anybody manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. the country always bores me to death. cecily: ah! this is what the newspapers call agricultural depression, is it not? i believe the aristocracy are suffering very much from it just at present. it is almost an epidemic amongst them, i have been told. in these lines, gwendolen says that people who live in the country lack education social status manners income cecily indicates that people in the city are . emotionally depressed morally debased economically prosperous ignorant of country life

1. I believe the correct answer is: social status.

     In these lines from the play “The Importance of Being Earnest”, written by Oscar Wild, Gwendolen Fairfax says that people who live in the country lack social status.

     Gwendelon is a big-city (London in this case), sophisticated woman who views the world with the shortsightedness of the aristocratic society of Victorian era, which Oscar Wilde tend to critic. Limited by her installed aristocratic norms, Gwendelon says that she can’t grasp the idea that someone of importance can live in the country (“how anybody manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does.”) as the country lacks the social status, which is reserved for the big cities.

2. I believe the correct answer is: morally debased.

     In these lines from the play “The Importance of Being Earnest”, written by Oscar Wild, Cecily indicates that people in the city are morally debased.

     Cecily Cardew is the foil character, contrast, of the Gwendelon Fairfox, which we can see in her protectiveness of the country life, both its setting and people. She replays to Gwendelons comments of the lack of social status in country life by calling people in the city “agricultural depressed”, meaning that their decrease in moral value spread like and illness, almost like an epidemic even.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.