THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST book review-评王尔德小说-认真的重要性-英文习作

第一篇：THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST book review-评王尔德小说-认真的重要性-英文习作

‘Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic, you will very glad to know Bunbury.A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.’

This line comes from Oscar Wilde’s drama, the Importance of being ernest, and is spoken by Algernon, a stand-up character for Oscar Wilde.Algernon conjures me up another character, Lord Henry, created by Wilde in the picture of Dorian Gray.The two books are different in every way-one is novel and another drama, and at his time one received universal popularity, while another aroused tremendous controversy and contributed to part of the reason of his imprison.Yet now I finds in them vibrant connection in character: Algernon and Lord Henry.They are shadows of Oscar Wilde, and the role that the author infiltrates his very own self.Algernon was a charming talker marked by nifty witty lines, so did Lord Henry.They were both cynical epicurean, and believe not in truth and love, the center value in the time of Victorian.And they both entertained a quirky view on marriage, which in fact reflected Oscar Wilde himself’s value in marriage.Most arresting remarks of Oscar Wilde were spoken by such a character, who is omnipresent in almost every work of Oscar Wilde.Here are some quotes of Algernon and Lord Henry’s paradoxical and epigrammatic pronouncements.(by Algernon)

‘One should always be in love, that is the reason one should never get married.’(by Lord Henry)

‘When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others.That is what would calls a romance.’(by Lord Henry)

The remarks of Algernon and Lord Henry were amusing and delightful at first sight.But their hedonistic lines forms such a set pattern that at the second part of the book we are quite bored with their tone, shallow and pompous.They utters witty remark, yet they seldom had a second thought on their philosophy.They ignored its paradox, and pursued only the beauty in language, which reflected Oscar Wilde himself’s detached attitude to his story and his characters.In the Importance of being Ernest, the plot are not reasonable in terms of real life.In the drama, Cecily fell in love with Ernest for three months before she met Algernon, and when Algernon went to her home, she wrote down every word that he said.This seems ridiculous in the real life, though it took place in a drama, which pursued absurdness.This absurdness in the lines of Algernon and Lord Henry can be best illustrated by a remark of Oscar Wilde, ‘I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I’m saying.’