TIOBE quotes

Question 1

What shows the characters focus on aestheticism?

Answer 1

in matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing

Question 2

What shows Algernon’s wealth?

what shows Algernon’s debt?

Answer 2

(the room is luxuriously and artistically furnished)

Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend on

I happen to be more than usually hard up

Question 3

Quotes about poor people

Answer 3

“if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?” - an epigram

“have no sense of moral responsibility:

Question 4

Quotes that Lane is smart for being lower class?

Answer 4

I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir

there were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir

Question 5

views on marriage

Answer 5

algernon: I thought you had come up for pleasure…i call that business

divorces are made in heaven (broken collocation)

Question 6

Female dominance of male characters

Answer 6

rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture

(he tries to rise; she restrains him)

I, or your father…

Question 7

Quotes about the name Ernest

Answer 7

there is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence

it produces vibrations

Question 8

Views on baptism

Answer 8

“trot round about five”

The idea is grotesque and irreligious

Question 9

Pieces of paper which push the story forward (parts of the well made play)

Answer 9

“it is very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case”

(writes address on his shirt-cuff)

One should always have something sensational to read in the train

A three volume novel of more than usually revolting sentiment

these delightful records should have been my constant study

Question 10

Examples of the importance of aestheticism

Answer 10

sugar is not fashionable anymore . . . cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays

The unfashionable side

Question 11

Quotes for angel in the house

Answer 11

How absurd to talk about the equality of the sexes … men are infinitely beyond us

Question 12

Quotes about society

Answer 12

Never speak disrespectfully of society Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that

Question 13

Jack taking the traditional dramatic role of the villainous father

Answer 13

Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to

I decline to give my consent

Question 14

What is the ending pun before the proceedings?

Answer 14

“I’ve now realised the importance of being Earnest” - a verbal paradox as it contradicts how he achieved happiness through lying