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One of Oscar Wilde's best-known and most celebrated works, a true masterpiece, was his last comedy titled “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Three months after its release, Wilde was put in prison after suing Alfred Douglas for libel; The evidence against him was overwhelming and the writer was sentenced to two years of hard labor. The plot centers on a very limited young man named Jack Worthing and his friend Algernon, hilariously apathetic boys, cynical and romantic at the same time, two marriageable and prudish young girls, Cecilia and Gundelinda, and the unfortunate relationship with their fictional brother Ernesto : it's the game. recurring and frequent double personality between imposture and truth . Wilde uses the polysemic irony of the double meaning of English vocabulary to mock society: in English the name “Ernest” sounds the same as the word “earnest,” which means sensible.
Although in Spanish the title that has prevailed is “The importance of being Earnest”, in English “The Importance of Being Earnest” this translation could be equally valid: “The importance of being sensible” (or serious). The Australia Phone Number text is a light satire of an indolent, self-absorbed and selfish society; an intelligent treatise on customs and social hypocrisy, narrated elegantly but extraordinarily critical of the society of its time, conventional and with very strict social and moral codes; He describes an apparent and politically correct society, but in his story he draws a frivolous, fatuous, cynical, false and manipulative society clearly contrary to the truth, hollow and unfriendly most of the time and absent of anything that signifies mental agility; Wilde's criticism, being a classic, remains very current. Masterly. Cunning.
Funny. Oscar Wilde managed to criticize modernity and the value of appearances. At times very ironic, but it never ceases to be distant from reality. Why this reference to the work of Oscar Wilde? I make it explicit in the previous paragraph: the criticism that Wilde makes of the society of his time, a conventional, frivolous, fatuous, cynical, false and manipulative society and clearly contrary to the truth, continues to be very topical in our country. Isabel Díaz Ayuso and José María Aznar coincided days ago at the closing of the Leadership Classroom of the Atlantic Institute of Government and the Francisco de Vitoria University, a Catholic university, administered by Regnum Christi , the ultra-conservative religious congregation of the “Legionaries of Christ.
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