The reading that I enjoyed the most this week was The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Even though it was quite long I found it interesting and funny at some points. For example when Cecily and Gwendolyn are insulting each other, and in a way they are insulting each other by using where they are from. I also found it quite funny when the consequences of Jack’s and Algernon’s bunburying took place, but I was happy that in the end everything worked out for them. Even though they had to go through Aunt Augusta who was big on marrying within money or nobility, but Jack ended up being a part of the higher class so he was accepted anyway. I honestly do not think that a certain name makes someone a better person though, but I guess those were just how some of the British viewed things during that time. Two things that I found somewhat creepy were that Cecily wrote “Ernest’s” letters to herself and got sad over what she wrote and Jack still wanted to marry Gwendolen even though they were cousins.
Another story that I found interesting was Bliss by Katherine Mansfield. The one thing that I found the most interesting about this story was how Bertha ignored the fact that her husband was having an affair with Miss Fulton. Even though her life was good besides the fact that her husband did not love her and made plans with another women. Do you think that staying with her husband is really worth it so the rest of her life will remain good? I think that the theme ignorance was bliss, really fits in with the story and how Bertha feels about her life.
I also found The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf to be quite interesting due to its stream of consciousness style. I liked the way Woolf thought of an idea which somehow related to another topic that she started talking about. I found it creative that she used the idea of a mark on the wall to show how imaginative and in-depth a person’s thoughts could be, especially a woman’s. One thing that I wondered was if it really is that simple to look at a dark spot on the wall and imagine all of the things that it could be? But, I guess Woolf was just trying to get her point across about women writers.
