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We attribute quotes to the characters that say them in-story, not the author that wrote the character.
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->'''Algernon Moncrieff:''' ''The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be quite tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.''
-->OscarWilde, ''The Importance of Being Earnest''
''The Importance of Being Earnest'' is an 1895 play by Irish playwright OscarWilde. It is a farce on the societal conventions and restrictions of late-Victorian society, and remains enormously popular today.
-->OscarWilde, ''The Importance of Being Earnest''
''The Importance of Being Earnest'' is an 1895 play by Irish playwright OscarWilde. It is a farce on the societal conventions and restrictions of late-Victorian society, and remains enormously popular today.
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-->OscarWilde,
-->-- '''Algernon Moncrieff''', ''The Importance of Being Earnest''
''The Importance of Being Earnest'' is an 1895 play by Irish playwright
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* CoupledCouples
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* CoupledCouplesCoupledCouples: Jack [[spoiler:aka Ernest]] and Gwendolyn, and Algernon and Cecily.
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* KissingCousins / IncestIsRelative: At the end of the play, [[spoiler:since Jack is Algernon's brother, Jack's girlfriend Gwendolen is his cousin.]] But that's okay. More worrying might be the relationship between Jack and ''Algernon'' - what with the bunburying, and the bickering like an old married couple, and the it being written by Oscar Wilde, and all... look, it doesn't HAVE to be played that way, but the subtext is there if you want it to be.
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* KissingCousins / IncestIsRelative: At the end of the play, [[spoiler:since Jack is Algernon's brother, Jack's girlfriend Gwendolen is his cousin.]] But that's okay. More worrying might be the relationship between Jack and ''Algernon'' - what with the bunburying, and the bickering like an old married couple, and the it being written by Oscar Wilde, and all... look, it doesn't HAVE to be played that way, but the subtext is there if you want it to be.]]
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Jack is melancholic, Gwendolyn is choleric, Algernon is phlegmatic, and Cecily is sanguine.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Jack is melancholic, Gwendolyn is choleric, Algernon is phlegmatic, and Cecily is sanguine.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The 2002 film switched [[spoiler:the brothers' birth order,]] leaving it unexplained how Algernon could have [[spoiler:forgotten that he had a younger brother]], and why [[spoiler:the second, not the first, son being christened after the father would be memorable for Lady Bracknell.]]
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The 2002 film switched [[spoiler:the brothers' birth order,]] leaving it unexplained how Algernon could have [[spoiler:forgotten that he had a younger brother]], and why [[spoiler:the second, not the first, son being christened after the father would be memorable for Lady Bracknell.Bracknell when she can't remember what the actual name was.]]
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The 2002 film switched [[spoiler:the brothers' birth order,]] leaving it unexplained how Algernon could have [[spoiler:forgotten is younger brother]], and why [[spoiler:the second, not the first, son being christened after the father would be memorable for Lady Bracknell.]]
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The 2002 film switched [[spoiler:the brothers' birth order,]] leaving it unexplained how Algernon could have [[spoiler:forgotten is that he had a younger brother]], and why [[spoiler:the second, not the first, son being christened after the father would be memorable for Lady Bracknell.]]
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The 2002 film switched [[spoiler:the brothers' birth order,]] leaving it unexplained how Algernon could have [[spoiler:forgotten is younger brother]], and why [[spoiler:the second, not the first, son being christened after the father would be memorable for Lady Bracknell.]]
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* RunningGag: There are several food-related ones, such as Algernon's constant eating and love of muffins, and the dislike of cake that appears to be shared by all four lovers.
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* TheLawFirmOfPunPunAndWordplay: When Jack defends his ward Cecily's social status against Lady Bracknell's questions, he notes the late Thomas Cardew's three addresses (which "always inspire confidence, even among tradesmen," according to Lady Bracknell); in support of this fact, he adds that her solicitors are the firm of Markby, Markby, and Markby. They also meet with her approval ("A firm of the very highest position in their profession. Indeed I am told that one of the Mr Markby's is occasionally to be seen at dinner parties.")
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Removing circular links and alphabetising.
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-->OscarWilde, ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''
''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' is an 1895 play by Irish playwright OscarWilde. It is a farce on the societal conventions and restrictions of late-Victorian society, and remains enormously popular today.
''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' is an 1895 play by Irish playwright OscarWilde. It is a farce on the societal conventions and restrictions of late-Victorian society, and remains enormously popular today.
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-->OscarWilde, ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''
''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''''The Importance of Being Earnest''
''The Importance of Being Earnest'' is an 1895 play by Irish playwright OscarWilde. It is a farce on the societal conventions and restrictions of late-Victorian society, and remains enormously popular today.
''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''
''The Importance of Being Earnest'' is an 1895 play by Irish playwright OscarWilde. It is a farce on the societal conventions and restrictions of late-Victorian society, and remains enormously popular today.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Depends on the production how far they take this, but Algernon's offstage piano playing in the first act tends to come in at dramatically appropriate moments, much to Jack's annoyance.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Depends on the production how far they take this, but Algernon's offstage piano playing in the first act tends to come in at dramatically appropriate moments, much to Jack's annoyance.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Depends on the production how far they take this, but Algernon's offstage piano playing in the first act tends to come in at dramatically appropriate moments, much to Jack's annoyance.
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* ILeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Depends on the production how far they take this, but Algernon's offstage piano playing in the first act tends to come in at dramatically appropriate moments, much to Jack's annoyance.
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* ILeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Depends on the production how far they take this, but Algernon's offstage piano playing in the first act tends to come in at dramatically appropriate moments, much to Jack's annoyance.
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->'''Algernon Moncrieff:''' ''The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Life would be quite tedious if it were either.''
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->'''Algernon Moncrieff:''' ''The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Life Modern life would be quite tedious if it were either.either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.''
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* ILeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Depends on the production how far they take this, but Algernon's offstage piano playing in the first act tends to come in at dramatically appropriate moments, much to Jack's annoyance.
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* SpeechCentricWork: Stacks of dialogue, most of it [[WorldOfSnark snarky]].
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* MoralLuck: Lady Bracknell embodies this. She admonishes Jack for being an orphan because it shows "contempt for the decencies of family life"; disapproves of sympathising will ill people because "illness is hardly a thing to be encouraged"; and even congratulates an offstage character for finally "making up his mind" to die.
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Blue Eyes has been split into different tropes (Icy Blue Eyes, Innocent Blue Eyes, Creepy Blue Eyes, etc) as per this thread
because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well.
because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well.Deleted line(s) 20 (click to see context) :
* BlueEyes: Gwendolen admires Jack's.
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* AccidentalTruth: Jack and Algernon pretend to be [[spoiler: brothers, and it turns out they are. Jack also pretends to be named Earnest, and that was the name he was christened as, before he was lost as a baby.]]
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* AccidentalTruth: Jack and Algernon pretend to be [[spoiler: brothers, and it turns out they are. Jack also pretends to be named Earnest, Ernest, and that was the name he was christened as, before he was lost as a baby.]]
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* CollectiveIdentity: Both Jack and Algernon use the alias Earnest Worthing. Each proposes while using this identity and HilarityEnsues when Earnest's two fiancees meet each other.
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* CollectiveIdentity: Both Jack and Algernon use the alias Earnest Ernest Worthing. Each proposes while using this identity and HilarityEnsues when Earnest's Ernest's two fiancees meet each other.
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** Although that may have been yet another lie on Jack's part. In any case, he's clearly only withholding consent to blackmail Lady Blacknell into letting him marry Gwendolen.
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** Although that may have been yet another lie on Jack's part. In any case, he's clearly only withholding consent to blackmail Lady Blacknell Bracknell into letting him marry Gwendolen.
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* IceCreamKoan: An awful lot of the wittiest lines ''sound'' profound at first, but fall apart when you [[FridgeLogic think about them]] too hard.
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* IceCreamKoan: An awful lot of the wittiest lines ''sound'' profound at first, but fall apart when you [[FridgeLogic think about them]] too hard.hard, the characters even comment on this fact.
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* BrickJoke: "You will call me sister, will you not?"
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*GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Allegedly, "Earnest" was a contemporary term, among homosexuals, for "homosexual". Thus, to those in the know, the title of the play becomes "The Importance of Being Homosexual", and the main characters who change their names...
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* CollectiveIdentity: Both Jack and Algernon use the alias Earnest Worthing. Each proposes while using this identity and HilarityEnsues when Earnest's two fiancees meet each other.
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* FallingForSomeoneNeverMet: and who doesn't even exist.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Algernon's for Cecily. (Her love for him, of course, is of an even [[FallingForSomeoneNeverMet earlier origin]].)
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Algernon's for Cecily. (Her love for him, of course, is of an even [[FallingForSomeoneNeverMet [[LoveBeforeFirstSight earlier origin]].))
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: With someone who doesn't even exist.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: With someone who doesn't even exist.
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* LivingADoubleLife: The entire concept of "Bunburying". Jack is Ernest in town and Jack in the country.
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* InventedIndividual: The former TropeNamer. Algernon's [[InventedIndividual Ernest]] is the nonexistent "Mr Bunbury"; Jack's is, naturally, his brother Ernest.
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* InventedIndividual: The former TropeNamer. Algernon's [[InventedIndividual Ernest]] is the nonexistent "Mr Bunbury"; Jack's is, naturally, his brother Ernest.
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* KissingCousins / IncestIsRelative: At the end of the play, [[spoiler:since Jack is Algernon's brother, Jack's girlfriend Gwendolen is his cousin. But that's okay. More worrying might be the relationship between Jack and ''Algernon'' - what with the bunburying, and the bickering like an old married couple, and the it being written by Oscar Wilde, and all... look, it doesn't HAVE to be played that way, but the subtext is there if you want it to be.
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* KissingCousins / IncestIsRelative: At the end of the play, [[spoiler:since Jack is Algernon's brother, Jack's girlfriend Gwendolen is his cousin. ]] But that's okay. More worrying might be the relationship between Jack and ''Algernon'' - what with the bunburying, and the bickering like an old married couple, and the it being written by Oscar Wilde, and all... look, it doesn't HAVE to be played that way, but the subtext is there if you want it to be.
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Too long! Also, it does make sense any other way - that the montage of them squabbling, just as siblings do, is another interpretation.
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* KissingCousins / IncestIsRelative: At the end of the play, [[spoiler:since Jack is Algernon's brother, Jack's girlfriend Gwendolen is his cousin. But that's okay. More worrying might be the relationship between Jack and ''Algernon'' - what with the bunburying, and the bickering like an old married couple, and the it being written by Oscar Wilde, and all... look, it doesn't HAVE to be played that way, but the subtext is there if you want it to be. The Colin Firth movie version has Jack and Algy imagine [[FallingInLoveMontage a montage of their closer moments]] when the penny drops that doesn't make much sense any other way.]]
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* KissingCousins / IncestIsRelative: At the end of the play, [[spoiler:since Jack is Algernon's brother, Jack's girlfriend Gwendolen is his cousin. But that's okay. More worrying might be the relationship between Jack and ''Algernon'' - what with the bunburying, and the bickering like an old married couple, and the it being written by Oscar Wilde, and all... look, it doesn't HAVE to be played that way, but the subtext is there if you want it to be. The Colin Firth movie version has Jack and Algy imagine [[FallingInLoveMontage a montage of their closer moments]] when the penny drops that doesn't make much sense any other way.]]
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This was true for the live production I saw. If it isn\'t typical, go ahead and delete it. Ho Yay is moved
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In live productions, often when characters are talking with one another, anyone meandering on stage and not directly participating in the conversation are doing something hilarious, such as not-so-subtly listening in.
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* HoYay: [[YourMileageMayVary Yes.]] Unsurprisingly, given the [[OscarWilde Author]]. [[spoiler: Which quickly becomes squicky (though, YMMV) at the end.]]
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* AccidentalTruth: Jack and Algernon pretend to be [[spoiler: brothers, and it turns out they are.]]
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* AccidentalTruth: Jack and Algernon pretend to be [[spoiler: brothers, and it turns out they are. Jack also pretends to be named Earnest, and that was the name he was christened as, before he was lost as a baby.]]
