-Do a close reading of a particular scene (not a character) -The last section of

-Do a close reading of a particular scene (not a character)
-The last section of Act II (attached pages 57-71)
-Watch the video (attached link) that explains this scene.
-Some topics to talk about:
-Importance of names (for Gwendolen and Cecily) and satire/critique of marriage
-Deception (Jack and Algernon pretending to be Ernest) and social norms/expectations (the way the women stop fighting and pretend to be cordial with each other when the servers come in to set up the tea plate)
-Dramatic irony (the reader is aware that Jack and Algernon are not named Earnest, but the female characters do not know this yet at the beginning of this section)
-Wit and wordplay on page 43 when Jack and Algernon reveal their actual names
NOTE: ATTACHED IS ONE SOURCE THAT NEEDS TO BE USED IN THIS PAPER.
This paper needs to be 1000 words, showing that you can connect the details of a work to its overall meaning and design. Paper must begin (beneath the title) with a brief quotation from the work, formatted as an epigraph to the paper. The opening sentence must say something intelligent about the words of the quotation (with no empty generalizations, windy fluff, or pretentious blather); the rest of the paper must eventually work outward from your opening sentences toward a reading of a larger part of the work or of the work as a whole. In other words, you are doing an extended close-reading assignment, beginning with one sentence from which you are extending your analysis. This essay is NOT merely a close-reading of that scene, but an analysis of how that scene contributes to the overall meaning of the book.