Hello all,

I must write an assignment in play form(2 pages, including stage directions) to make a prediction about the married life of the two young couples in 15 years, and it is due in two days. Thus, can anyone with great imagination and inspiration please help me out here? I sort of racked my brains not knowing how to start. Thanks a bunch!

Don't let the pressure get to you! The characters in "The Importance of Being Earnest" are ripe with opportunities to project them into the future.

Let your imagination work as you conceive of what Jack's and Algernon's marriages would be like in 15 years. The best thing of all is that there is no right answer!

Something you may want to use -

Fifteen years after the play's setting (early 1890s), the Victorian Era had ended (1901), and the playboy Prince of Wales, now King Edward VII reigned. The culture, even among the aristocracy, changed. Edward traveled a great deal, unlike his mother, who stayed in mourning for the last 40 years of her life.

A few events that happened during that 15 year span -

# 1902 End of Second Boer War in South Africa.
# 1903: First flight of Wright brothers.
# 1908: Olympics held in London.
# 1909: Louis Blériot crosses English Channel by air.

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