The importance of being earnest anaylsis

I am not really sure what to blog about, so I am going to talk about Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest. So far my class has only read the first act of The Importance of Being Earnest and we have discovered that gender roles take a significant role in the play. Wilde lived in 19th century, a time where women were deemed as inferior and where expected to be obedient to men. Throughout the play women and marriage are portrayed quite negatively. Algernon Moncrief, one of the main characters throughout the play, believes that liquor tastes worse while married. Furthermore  he believes that women act indecent towards their husbands and flirt inappropriately with them. In addition, Algernon believes that men need to create a false persona to get away from their wives or else the wives will do the same. Algernon believed that  a marriage proposal was like a business engagement, so marriage as a whole is viewed quite negatively. Marriage seems to bring the perception of dullness, since the wives make the champagne taste worse, and the proposal is business. Wilde was portraying in his play, that proposal is the first step into a unhappy relationship.

                  Furthermore, women are viewed quite negatively as well. Wilde makes Gwenedlon, a rich and pretty women, seem like quite an airhead. Gwendenlon follows her mother's wishes blindly and deems that she will not forget Jack and will continue to marry frequently. In addition, Gwendenlon controlled the way Jack proposed and said that he is not very experienced at proposing, which is something a man is supposed to be inexperienced at. By even suggesting that Jack is inexperienced at proposing, a matter of common sense, Gwenedlon is portrayed as an airhead. Also, Gwenedlon says that she likes Jack, because his name is Earnest, which is quite a trivial reason. Although Jack is a nice and wealthy man, Gwenedlon placed quite an emphasis on his name and his origins when telling him about her love. Although Gwenedlon may seem like quite an airhead, Wilde helps counteract this negative view of women portrayed by her by making Lady Bracknell have much influence over others. Lady Bracknell does not act very feminine, she acts like a very powerful man. Moreover, Lady Bracknell dictates what her husband, daughter, and nephew are supposed to do. She requires Algernon to eat with her and she arranges seating positions for everyone. When Algernon made up an excuse to miss dining with Lady Bracknell, she decided to make her husband stay by himself so that the seating arrangement would improve. In addition, Lady Bracknell refuses to let Jack marry to her daughter, even though he is a wealthy and kind gentleman, because she does not like his origins. Lady Bracknell's overbearing and masculinity makes her feared and avoided. Wilde may have created Lady Bracknell as such a masculine character to show that feminine women were simple-minded and masculine women were over-bearing. So, overall Wilde creates a very negative portrayal of women in his play The Importance of Being Earnest.