Drama: TIOBE- Act 3 NOT COMPLETE

Question 1

1.What structual features are used for Act 3?

Answer 1

It is the shortest of the act, which satirises the ‘long-novel’ idea, and encapsulates the idea of a ‘farse’.

Question 2

2.What comedic line does Gwendolen open Act 3 with?

Answer 2

Stating her displeasement at the fact that Jack and Algernon didn’t immediately follow them in.

Question 3

3.What do Gwendolen and Cecily agree to do just before the men come into the manor house?

Answer 3

Agree to stay silent, then immediately begin to talk, which Wilde does to satirise and ridicule Victorian society

Question 4

4.What happens when the men go into the manor house?

Answer 4

Algernon and Jack both give compelling stories to Cecily and Gwendolen respectively as to account for their actions. Both women forgive their men respectively, which Wilde does to satirise the gender trope of a ‘passive woman’.

Question 5

5.What physical comedy is used in Act 3?

Answer 5

Straight after the men apologise to the women and they accept, they each fall into each others arms, using choreography as a form of physical comedy.

Question 6

6.What then interupts this seemingly new-found equilibrim of Gwendolen and Jack and Algernon and Cecily all made up?

Answer 6

Lady Bracknell enters, and she is used by Wilde to be the antogonist of the play, as she is portrayed to be interferring, and is used as a stock character.