Pygmalion and The Importance of Being Earnest

Pygmalion and The Importance of Being Earnest are two completely different plays written around the late ninthenth and early twentieth century by two completely different authors. The respective authors, Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde both were British play writers who satirized the changing social atmosphere of their era through their plays by poking fun at the high societies. The plays demonstrated the need for societies higher up on the social ladder to suppress those below them while at the same time, the societies lower on the social ladder’s need to fight and rise above and the consequences that resulted when the two clash together. The characters, tone, literary devices and theme use by each author to convey their message and opinions of their social structure were vastly different yet at the same time frighteningly similar to that of the other.
The authors’ characters were one of the best ways that the playwrights expressed their feelings about the stereotypical people of di...