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Comedy vs. Tragedy
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Marriage 10%
- Cause (rather than effect)
- characters concerned with the status of marriage
Love 10%
- Othello and Desdemona display genuine love, in the beginning
- Love gets minimized by the other themes
Importance of Being Earnest: Comedy
Deception 50%
Because of the high status associated with love and marriage, drastic measures, such as deception are often employed to find a suitable match.
Iago
- "honest Iago"
- MVP of deception
- calculated, destruction bringing
- drives plot
Deception 60%
Jealousy 30%
- motive behind actions in play
- Iago's jealousy breeds his deception
- Jealousy turns Othello on Cassio
Cassio
- innocent, target for jealousy
- Plot fueled by the invention of "Earnest"
- Bunburying for personal freedom
What's in a name?
- Jack vs. Earnest vs. Algernon
Love 25%
- motivation for the deception
- New love
Similarities
Othello: Tragedy
Despite the social and legal importance of marriage, giving into the vices of jealousy and deception can damage the bonds of love that create marriage.
Earnest
Othello
Both
- Deception plays a major role
Marriage 10%
- Most actions result in death
- Everyone in the play faced jealousy
- Every Consequence is mostly lighthearted
- Jealousy is not very relevant in the play
- effect (rather than cause)
- of deceptive actions
- "happily ever after"
- status of marriage
Jealousy 5%
- Minimal role in play
- Created by misunderstanding between Cecily and Gwendolyn
- Jack is jealous of Algie when he becomes Earnest
"Women want him, Men want to be him"
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