the Importance of Reserching

I could not resist the title sorry.

When you are little, quite often the jokes in movies would go straight over your head unless they were slapstick comedy , but when you grow- up and rewatch the movie you pick up on the cleverer jokes ,hidden meanings, double entendres, and cynical remarks. Like growing-up, research has this affect on reading a book from another era,after researching the era you find your self in on all the subtleties of the setting.Within my research for The Importance of Being Ernest I learned that women in the Victorian era where expected to be delicate and proper. This helped me to understand how some of the women in the play acted.

One place that my research really helped me was in getting a good picture in my head of what the settings looked like. By researching what a portmanteau is I understood why Jack was anxious to make sure Algernon didn't over stay his welcome( portmanteaus are very large suitcases).I also was better able to understand the characters because of this . Due to my research about how the Victorian society works I gained insight of to why Lady Bracknell didn't want Jack to marry Gwendolen due to his statis as a foundling. Lastly research has helped me to understand the author , Oscar Wilde by learning about his life I can now understand the social comments he makes, how he is basically saying in this story that its not a good thing to have society so rigid and proper.