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__//**THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Biography of the playwright**//__

Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Born 16 October 1854 Died: 30 November 1900 Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet. Nationality: Irish Parents: William Wilde and Jane Francesca Wilde (nee Eglee) Married Constance Lloyd and had two sons Cyril and Vyvyan. Education: Oscar Wilde was educated at home up to the age of nine. He then attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh from the ages of nine to sixteen. After Portora, Wilde studied classics at Trinity College in Dublin. He won the Berkley Gold Medal (the highest award available to classics students at Trinity). He was awarded a scholarship to Magdelen College, Oxford where he became apart of Aesthetic movement. While at Magdalen he won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his poem 'Ravenna'. He graduated with a double first in classical moderatinons and Literae Humaniores, or 'Greats'.


 * //__The World of The Character: Cecilia Cardew__//**

Describe the physical and personal characteristics of the character

Cecily Cardew is a very pretty girl with long blonde hair. She is always well-dressed. She is out-spoken and tends to dream alot. She has a little diary in which she lets her imaginations run wild. She is obsessed with the name of Earnest but is more intrigued with the idea of a boy being 'wicked'. She is a child of nature, as ingenious and unspoiled as a pink rose. She is a fantacist.

Describe your characters relationships with other characters.

Well in the play Cecily is Mr Jack Worthings Ward. When Jack was a baby Thomas Cardew (Grandfather of Cecily) adopted Jack. In the play Mr Worthing has a made-up brother called Earnest.. Cecily hears of this wicked brother and falls in love with him which leads her to making up a fake marriage to Earnest. Algernon (Jack's friend) pretends to be Earnest. Cecily meets Gwendolen when Gwendolen was trying to look for Jack. They become good friends but then they end up fighting over a made up person named Earnest whom they both want to marry. They are both angry at eachother. In the end they both find out that it was all a game and they become friends in an instant.

What happened before and after your scene?

Well before the scene that I had a little fight with Gwendolen, "Earnest" had proposed to me. This was not a real Earnest. This was my Uncle Jacks friend named Algernon, he thought he'd pretend to be Earnest because he wanted to marry me. So as Uncle Jack AND Algernon are playing at their game of being Earnest they both propose to Cecily and Gwendolen making it confusing for the two girls. And one day Gwendolen come to the country looking for Jack. Cecily tells Gwendolen that she is getting married to Earnest (who is Algernon) but Gwendolen disagrees and says that SHE is getting married to Earnest (who is Uncle Jack).

Describe the motivation for your character.

My character is a rich girl that is being home-schooled, so she didn't really have a social life. No friends to gossip with or anything like that. So instead of that, she had to make up fantasies of her own which were recorded in her diary. First, her Uncle Jack made up a fake brother who lived in the city. This fake brother was suppiosedly bad and wicked. Cecily heard of this fake brother (to whom she thought was real) and made up an engagement in her diary. The motivation to this was that she was very interested in dashing bad boys that she ended up making up a fantasy engagement with this fake brother "Earnest".

Describe the feelings/emotions of your character in this scene. The feeling/emotions of my character in the scene with Gwendolen is that she is very annoyed with the fact that Gwendolen also is getting married to to this "Earnest" person. At the same time she quite likes having this llittle argument with Gwendolen over "Earnest" because she finds it a bit amusing. __//**REFLECTION**//__

How well did you meet your individual responsibilites to the rehearsal process and performance?

I think I met these responsibilities quite well. I turned up to every rehearsal there was (except for those when I had other committments to attend to). I learned my lines every night, and when I was assigned to learn some other pages of the script I had them learned by heart the next day. So i guess I was quite responsible for everything I did and had to do.

How successful was the production overall?

We did not do the whole production due to other persons not learning their lines. So we had to allocate people to perform these roles and we could only perform some of the best/popular scenes in the play. On the first night of the performance which was a Thursday it went to custard. People forgot their lines and they forgot their blocking. The second night which was a Friday night we pulled it off. With some slight tweaks here and there we managed to pull it off and the maybe ten people that were there enjoyed it. So the production I'll say went pretty well.

How effectively did you communicate your role to the audience?

I think I performed my character quite well to the audience. I felt that they understood who my character was and what my character was like. I felt that they understood what kind of relatonships I had with different characters in the play considering we only performed about six scenes from the play. I felt that I played Cecily Cardew well. The audience understood.