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本篇论文试图以文学伦理学批评的方法，在前人的研究成果的基础上，从家庭伦理观的角度对王尔德的《认真的重要性》进行分析，共分为751个部分。第一部分为介绍；第二部分回顾了家庭伦理观部分观点；第三部分揭示了剧本中反映出的文多利亚时代社会的家庭伦理观；第四部分分析了王尔德在剧中表达的理想家庭伦理观；第五部分探究其形成原因；第751部分为总结。
经过一系列的学习研究后，可以得出以下结论：在《认真的重要性》中，王尔德不仅揭露批判了文多利亚时期上流社会的虚伪、不合理的家庭伦理观，还融入了自己理想的家庭伦理观，并且其家庭伦理观的形成离不开家庭和当时社会对他的影响。因此，从这一主题出发，对此作品进行研究是有着很大的社会意义和现实意义，同时也希望可以对中国青年树立正确的家庭伦理观带来一定的指导意义。
毕业论文关键词：奥斯卡•王尔德,《认真的重要性》，家庭伦理观，文多利亚时代
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements.i
Abstractii
摘要.iii
1 Introduction 1
2 A Review of Family Ethics 4
2.1 Love as the Foundation of Marriage 4
2.2 Marriage as the Construction of Family 4
2.3 Women’s Role in Family 5
3 Family Ethics in Victorian Era 7
3.1 Dandies’ Pleasure 7
3.2 Women’s Idealism in Love 8
3.3 Hypocrisy and Snobbishness in Love 9
3.4 Inequality in Family 10
4 Oscar Wilde’s Ideal Family Ethics 12
4.1 True love with Earnest 12
4.2 Tolerance in Family 13
4.3 Changes in Status of Women 13
5 Forming Reasons for Oscar Wilde’s Family Ethics 15
5.1 Influence of Family 15
5.2 Influence of Morals in Victorian Era 16
5.3 Influence of the Economy 16
6 Conclusion 17
Bibliography19
1 Introduction
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer, poet and literary critic, is generally recognized as the leading advocate of aestheticism. As one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s, he had a great impact on modern literature. Oscar Wilde was born in a wealthy Protestant family in Dublin. His father, Sir William Wilde, was a reputable physician and his mother, Lady Wilde, was an ardent Irish nationalist writer and feminist who influenced Wilde deeply on literature when he was a child. In 1874, he went to Oxford and then took his first step on his aestheticism road. After graduation, he settled in London and began his literary career there as a poet. He was imprisoned for homosexuality in 1896, and four years later, in 1900 died. No doubt, Oscar Wilde was a versatile writer. Throughout his short life, he published a novel, many poems, fairy stories, plays and other works in various kinds of forms. Among these, the most commonly known works include his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, his aestheticism representative work, one of his collections of fairy stories, The Happy Prince and Other Stories and his four social comedy plays, bringing huge fame to Oscar Wilde. Although many people sniffed at his dandy lifestyle and sexual orientation, nobody could deny his talents, achievements and effects.
His last social comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People, the funniest and most attractive play in which the protagonists maintain imaginary personas to escape burdensome social obligations, was first performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London and considered as one of Wilde’s masterpieces even one of the best social comedy plays in the whole world with the reputation as having “few rivals in its language”. Jack and Algernon are two dandies who create respective imaginary persona for them to pursue pleasure. Gwendolen and Cecily are two lovely girls that want to marry a man named Ernest, a pseudonym used by two men in order to win the two girls’ hearts. After the prevention from Gwendolen’s snobbish mother and Cecily’s guardian Jack, disclosure of lies and secret of birth, two couples finally get a happy ending. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play, which shows the upper class’s attitude towards marriage and the resulting satire of Victorian ways, has achieved great success and is still on stage today.