When Dr. Chausible asks Jack if he could allude to Earnest's death in his sermon on Sunday, Oscar Wilde is mocking how written publications are simply real life stories, but just use fake names and different places. Wilde is making fun of how authors at the time never came up with their own ideas, instead wrote about themselves or someone they know.
On that same note, authors also write what every other written work is about. Cecily says Chausible is smart since he's never published a book, meaning he can come up with his own ideas and doesn't base his sermons off other's he's read/heard. Wilde is saying how monotonous literature is and how it gets old soon.
Dr. Chausible uses the same sermon on the meaning of manna over and over again, he just changes it to fit the occasion. Oscar Wilde riducules prose with this statement. All three-volume novels have the same plot line, girl falls in love with the unlikely hero but a bad guy tries to tear them apart, the author just changes the characters to fit their own personality. For example, the main girl may be just a common farm girl if that is what the author was/who they fell for, depending upon the gender of the author.
If novels are based off reality, and they are all the same, does this then mean that reality is the same for each person?
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Emma's blog I assume?
ReplyDeleteThis sounds good if its you emma. The transitional sentence we talked about in class sounded good. Also, we both have the same quote. I think I can work it out with another quote though, so dont change it
ReplyDeleteGood. I'm not changing my quote.
ReplyDeleteThat's really good! If Jacob finds a different quote that would be good because there's not a lot specifically about the sermons.
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