Escaping Social Rules in The Importance of Being Earnest...

The main characters do use their double lives to escape social regulation, although in differing ways and on each character different social pressures are acting. The women live alternative mental lives through fantastical journals whereas the men, due to their comparatively greater social freedom, are able to create alternative physical lives. Jack pursues a double life due to the pressures of rural, family responsibility. Algy does the same due to the authoritarian influences of his relatives and his financial troubles. The Importance of Being Earnest was written in the tradition of the well-made play, fast paced and almost farcical plays peopled by stock characters, as described by Peter Raby; two pairs of young romantic†¦show more content†¦Even when the two men are in apparent danger of losing their loved ones Algy calmly and absurdly states that he `cant eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. His being `serious about Bunburying co uld be attributed to his inability to confront the pressures of responsibility. Another suffocating expectation of Victorian society to be escaped was that of family duty. Algys opinion of his relatives is made abundantly clear; they are `simply a tedious pack of people who havent got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. This cynical view implies Algy is waiting for his relatives to die for the inheritance he expects and this does not communicate a presence of family feeling in his character. This lack of family piety is added to by the authoritarian nature of his closest relative in the play. Algy has been invited to `dine with Aunt Augusta twice in one week and he is able to predict `perfectly well whom she will place me next to which shows how often he is under Lady Bracknells influence. Lady BracknellShow MoreRelatedSocialism : Theory Vs. 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