Poetics on The Misanthrope and The Importance of Being Earnest
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Aristotle poetics have some relation to both plays such as Moliere's The Misanthrope and Oscar Wilde The importance of being Earnest. Such poetics in the play are argued such as language, body movement, fable, character, clothing and the size of the play was performed. Alceste in 'The Misanthrope' and Cecily in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' are two very different characters and two very different writers write the stories, they amazingly share common bonds. Both stories are comedy's, but for different reasons. Alceste would think that Cecily is much too frivolous, and Cecily would abhor Alceste's brutal honestly, and his lacking of a sense of humor.
Seventeenth-century writer Molire, one of France's foremost comedic playwrights, gave depth to traditional comic roles by striving to maintain serious emotions in his work. Molire commonly satirized the contrast between people's perceptions of themselves and the perceptions others have of them. Alceste, the speaker, is jealous and criticizes his sweetheart, Celimene, for listening to the flattery of other men. Nineteenth-century Irish-born writer and intellectual Oscar Wilde led an eccentric life that fueled his witty satires and epigrams on Victorian society. A member of the aesthetic movement in literature, Wilde advocated the idea of art for art's sake...