Victorian Research

From the Victorian research, I gathered enough information to relate it to the play. One key subject I found in the research as well in the play is on the subject of marriage. Women got married young and men married a little under their middle age. Also men worked for their family and social status, while the wives did house work and looked good for their husbands. I found that in The Importance of Being Earnest, these examples are clearly shown to show the average people of the Victorian society.

In the play, Cecily is a 18 year old girl that is expecting to get married, which was not uncommon. Miss Prism tries to teach Cecily to be smart and proper, by making her study German. During the Victorian era, if a woman was smart or intelligent, she would have a better chance of being with a man of higher status. Algernon says that marriage is more business than pleasure which was mostly true after a man and woman of the Victorian age are married, which is another example of the facts of the the Victorian age and of the play.