I Never Tell the Truth and I Always Lie

Dishonesty is a major theme in the play, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” It is made humorous; satirical, in respect to social institutions; it also is apparent in the difference between the name “Ernest” and the word “earnest;” you can also find it in the situations involving the pursuit of pleasure. Many times in the novel, it is mentioned and alluded to, that, being honest is bad, unstylish, and/or something to be ashamed of. This is quite contradictory to actuality. Also, throughout the play, Wilde makes fun of dishonesty in the upper class of society. It is clear that honesty is shameful and that people should make themselves to be ignorant and sharp. It is ironic that in the end of the play, Jack turned out to be named Ernest after all and he was Algernon’s brother, so in the end his dishonesty turned out to be the truth and in an exchange between him and Gwendolyn, he asks for her forgiveness of his pure honesty for his whole life and she subsequently agrees.

Wilde is trying to say in the play that dishonesty was expected and respected in the Victorian era, especially in the upper class. The characters often say stuff that indirectly, or quite directly as the case may be, make honesty out to be bad. In the case of Ernest vs. earnest, it is the earnest thing to do if your name is not Ernest but as soon as you change your name to Ernest you loose all earnest qualities. Whether the men were pretending to be Ernest or planning to become Ernest, the were un-earnest. In the end however, Jack turned out to be Ernest making his lies earnest. Tricky stuff. Tricky, tricky stuff.

AFP Evaluations

1. Donna Wilson
2. Video
3. It was nice that the song beasts of England was in her project. How it was filmed was creative and cute. You could see all aspects of the novel being portrayed.

1. Reagan
2. Poem
3. The use of bolding certain letters in the poem was creative and went above just a general poem. The words talked about tyranny in the novel and the bolded letters spelled out “tyranny.”

1. Brooke
2. Song
3. If you didn’t know what was going on then it would be hard to follow. When she explained what was happening while it was playing however, you could see how each kind of music related to the scene in the novel.

1. Leah
2. Comic
3. She showed the hidden message behind stuff that was said in the book. It conveyed the message of the book really well.

1. Will
2. Time line
3. There wasn’t very much information, so it was a little hard to follow what was going on. You could see the changes that happened as the pigs rose to power.

1. Melanie
2. Video
3. This was a unique idea. The slide show described the main characters and the important aspects of the novel.

1. Katie
2. Picture
3. It is easy to tell what’s going on in the picture, Fredrick is giving them the fake money. This was an unusual scene choice, but I like it.

1. Olivia
2. Haiku
3. The haiku was good. She summed up the novel in very few words quite well.

1. Grace, Molly, Sarah and Katie
2. Video
3. This video looked really professional and went above and beyond the requirements. It portrayed the feeling of the novel well and it was really cool that they went to an actual pig farm.

1. Kamron
2. Picture
3. The picture was cute and creative. You could see what was being portrayed fairly easily and when he explained it, it made a lot of sense.

After looking at the projects, I saw that our project was pretty average. We definitely could have done more with it but our main goal was to make it funny which I think we accomplished. We didn’t do as much as we had wanted to due to limitations of the program we were using.

New Years Resolution ExtCrdt

I would say my life is good.

Of course “good” is a relative term but I am happy and I think that’s what matters. Many people are surprised, my life the past little while has been what most people would call stressful and sad at times, but those people don’t know me. The changes in my life that occurred in 2010 were all, in my mind, for the better. I have found that the only things in life that are really important to me are my friends and to always have a reason to laugh. Sure, I care about other things like my family and my grades but overall, if I am able to laugh and I have friends to stick by me, normally those two come hand in hand, everything else falls into place.

For 2011 I have just one wish, request, hope, desire, depends on who your talking to I guess. That is to relieve myself of all stress. This may sound impossible or wishful but currently I have very little stress so to get rid of the last little I have should be quite simple.

Now, I don’t mean good stress or little everyday things I mean the stuff that naws on you, the stuff that causes that felling beneath your heart and under your stomach, that pressure, the stuff that makes you feel guilty for no reason. The main thing for me right now is grades. Everything else is pretty controllable for me. So to start off the new year I want to take care of my grades and anything else that causes me stress.

I’ll consider this a good start.