The Effect of the Reverse of the Expectations in Creating Irony in Oscar Wilde's " The Importance of Being Earnest"

Abstract

Naturally people attend theatre to be moved to laughter. Comedy can fulfill this tendency, but it often aims to stimulate the intellectual penetration through laughter Actually, this art demands more than humorous characters placed in certain situations. At the same time, "to laugh at everything", Meredith states, "is to have no appreciations of the comic of comedy." ( 2005: 2)