My Ernest Part of a Earnest Five Part Five Part Paragraph

The idea of The Importance of Being Earnest is that no people are to high in society to critique. That the upper classes can and should be shown the errors of their ways, be it overtly or plainly. Wilde does this brilliantly through the satirization of the Victorian aristocracy.

That is why the main idea of our humble little paper is to show the deeper meaning, the reasons Oscar had for his massive amount of criticism.

My paragraph is on the subject of education, both personal and school wise. Fist off will speak of how apparently, among the wealthy, their are no fools left (CD) and how that this is for the benefit of themselves over the fools (aka the lower classes) and how they only use their cleverness to gain

more power, wealth, social standing, or any other greedy thing. Secondly I will touch upon the how some people (expressed by lady Bracknell) believe that one must be either all knowing or completely ignorant and that anything more or less is completely unacceptable. In their minds you must either be more knowing than your subordinates or not know anything (so you have an excuse). Lastly I'll talk about the how public education has failed (according to Lady Bracknell) and how if it didn't it would be a considerable danger to the upper classes. This is because the aristocracy uses their education to widen the gap between them and the less fortunate, to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. All they care about is their wealth and that wealths protection.

All of the above topics are used in the play by Wilde to show the upper echelons of England in the light they truly deserve, nothing more, nothing less, just enough to show the wrong that they were enacting and how they were trying to stifle the lower classes development, thus keeping their place in society intact. With that bombshell I plan to lead into Ellie's paragraph on social class.