English Literature - Day 15
We are learning to identify themes within a drama text.
Now, we are going to closely take a glance at the end of Act II, which we named it the "Theme of food". Actually, there are many themes in this play like: marriage, honesty (from the name "Earnest"), but today it's food. Then we wrote brief information describing how Oscar Wilde had shown food in order to generate humour in this scene. And here it is:
Muffins

A gif on Jack and Algernon fighting for muffins
Right in the end of Act II, Cecily and Gwendolen find out that both men are lying. The most amusing part is that during the climax of this play, both protagonists (the main characters), Algernon and Jack are simply talking about food, which was totally irrelevant to their problem caused.
I believe that Oscar Wilde has used the theme of food to create comedy, as Wilde created humour by Algernon eating muffins, instead of going to Cecily and asking for forgiveness, which was quite surprising to the audience. This is shown when when Jack says "How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins...you seem to me to be perfectly heartless." This implies that Algernon doesn't seem to care, whether the ladies are angry or not, and just calms himself down.

And, also when Jack got angry at Algernon, as he was eating them in a greedy manner, that he told Algy to go away. As reffering to this quote " I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." This implies that both gentleman are upset with other,as they can't get the ladies happy.
In conclusion, Oscar Wilde has cleverly used the "theme of food" to generate humour
Click here to see a video on the "muffin scene"
We are learning to identify themes within a drama text.
Now, we are going to closely take a glance at the end of Act II, which we named it the "Theme of food". Actually, there are many themes in this play like: marriage, honesty (from the name "Earnest"), but today it's food. Then we wrote brief information describing how Oscar Wilde had shown food in order to generate humour in this scene. And here it is:
Muffins
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A gif on Jack and Algernon fighting for muffins |
I believe that Oscar Wilde has used the theme of food to create comedy, as Wilde created humour by Algernon eating muffins, instead of going to Cecily and asking for forgiveness, which was quite surprising to the audience. This is shown when when Jack says "How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins...you seem to me to be perfectly heartless." This implies that Algernon doesn't seem to care, whether the ladies are angry or not, and just calms himself down.

And, also when Jack got angry at Algernon, as he was eating them in a greedy manner, that he told Algy to go away. As reffering to this quote " I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." This implies that both gentleman are upset with other,as they can't get the ladies happy.
In conclusion, Oscar Wilde has cleverly used the "theme of food" to generate humour
Click here to see a video on the "muffin scene"
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