Wilde's Views on Women in The Importance of Being Earnest. This essay is my first draft on the topic of how women are viewed in this play.
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is the helpless sort-sighted city girl, who has imagined a life outside her own and the same can be said for Cecily from the country. Wilde showed that Cecily and Gwendolen lacked an identity and that is because they have lived no life to contribute to giving them one. The irony to their lack of identity is they both imagined and loved a man who only had a name and no identity as well, Ernest.
is the helpless sort-sighted city girl, who has imagined a life outside her own and the same can be said for Cecily from the country. Wilde showed that Cecily and Gwendolen lacked an identity and that is because they have lived no life to contribute to giving them one. The irony to their lack of identity is they both imagined and loved a man who only had a name and no identity as well, Ernest.