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Lady Bracknell. Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself . . . Wilde uses Lady Bracknell’s words to poke fun at marriage by having her

Answer 1

Question: Wilde uses Lady Bracknell's words to poke fun at marriage by having her

Answer: Imply that young women do not have a choice in their own marriages.

Explanation: When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him says it right there in the paragraph

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Answer 2

Wilde uses her words to poke fun at marriage by having Lady Bracknell imply that young women do not have a choice in their own marriages.

Why does Wilde poke fun at marriage?

Wilde pokes fun at marriage in the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" because it was one of the core values in Victorian age. The play itself is satirical and it criticizes such values.

Examples of Victorian values are:

• Marriage

• Responsibility

• Evangelism

• Thrift

Lady Bracknell's words show how limited the freedom of women was. They were not supposed to marry for love, much less to choose their partners at all. Such an absurd value deserves to be poked fun at.

The missing answer choices for this question are:

• speak unhappily of her own marriage.
• speak lovingly of her own husband.
• imply that young women do not have a choice in their own marriages.
• imply that marriages are happiest when based on romantic love.

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