Question

What does Gwendolen say they live in?

• A. A pigsty
• B. An age of ideals
• C. A house in Shropshire
• D. An age of surfaces

Answer 1

Answer:

D. An age of surfaces

Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, offers the reader and viewer a chance to laugh at the deceptive ways that people present themselves. As Lady Bracknell puts it, towards the close of the play, “We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces”.