Read the beginning of the importance of being earnest. title: the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde the persons in the play john worthing, j. p. algernon moncrieff rev. canon chasuble, d. d. merriman, butler lane, manservant lady bracknell hon. gwendolen fairfax cecily cardew miss prism, governess first act scene morning-room in algernon’s flat in half-moon street. the room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. the sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room. [lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, algernon enters.] algernon. did you hear what i was playing, lane? lane. i didn’t think it polite to listen, sir. which analysis of the beginning of the importance of being earnest is the most accurate? the setting at the opening of the play makes a comment on the benefits of being married. the names of the characters in the play wilde illustrate the differences between social classes. the title is in establishing the play as a comedy of manners because it makes use of witty wordplay. the first line of dialogue in the play wilde emphasize a contrast between city and country life.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.