Satire and irony in Oscar Wilde's the importance of being Earnest
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University of Burundi
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, department of English Language and Literature
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Wilde(Oscar)."The importance of being earnest."Ironie.
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Memoire
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Bibliothèque Centrale | 896.NDA. I (Browse shelf) | Not For Loan | 5010000284503 |
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the Award of the degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature anglaises"
Focussing on the victorian age, this work aims at exposing Oscar Wilde's use of Irony and Satire in The Importance of Being Earnest as he criticises the forces and currents that shaped the English society of his time, which corresponds, in the history of England, to a rapid growth and development of England as a world industrialised power. Wilde does so in his play in using different characters that visibly represent different institutions of victorian sociey. Conducted using the New Historicism approach, this research demonstrates that Oscar Wilde, in the Importance of Being Earnest, uses Irony and Satire as dominant technique in exposing the weaknesses of the Victorian institutions.
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