The Importance of Being Earnest/Victorian Research

Before we began reading, The Importance of Being Earnest, we did research about the Victorian Era to get a better feel of what life was like back then and to relate to the characters. For example, throughout the book Algernon always says that girls are only good for pleasure and beauty. While studying this era, I found that that was how some men felt about women.

Also, I saw that women and men weren't interested or in love with eachother for the same reasons that people love eachother now. In the book the women are mostly intrested in men for their names, if they smoke, and if they have money. The men again, only like the women mostly for pleasure. Doing research on the Victorian Era before reading this novel has expanded my knowledge on peoples behavior at that time.