(Lady Bracknell walks swiftly into the bedroom, placing her stick on a chair beside the bed before casually taking off her overcoat.)
Lady Bracknell:
Eugine? I have some important news to discuss...Eugine? Well, unfortunetly, this such news makes the entire importance of Gwendolen's future, had it not occured, into such context. This and the fact that we would be fondly be talking on good terms. However, such events has reppelled me to discuss who shall marry Gwendolen. You see, just after meeting nephew Algernon, I stumpled across the man, Mr Worthing, who seemed to be at first light a charming man, with a good and may I say a handsome figure. Although I had seen he had taken quite a fancy to Gwendolen while I was taking to Algernon, by then I sensed it was maybe just a friendship talk and nothing that was as intimate, but may I recall the time that I stumbled across him on his knees, in the semi-recumbent posture, I found it most indecorous. How disgusted I felt, can not be put into words. The fact that I have this feeling now only follows when I interviewed Mr Worthing.
Eugine, I do not want to put it upon you, but I know you have the right to know who takes the fancy of Gwendolen. In my eye I know that one should have their marriage arranged than to depend on their own feelings, for I cannot have this for Gwendolen. For some of Mr Worthings opinions had startled me, especially the truth of him being abandoned in a... handbag. This had given me the excuse to uphold this engagement that is between Gwendolen and Mr Worthing. The only approval I have of him is that he has money, and not just that he has land. For we can benefit of that, if not nothing else. His manner of ways are not as bad as I had thought and the title of his name does seem most exciting, but I will leave it up to you, maybe to resolve this matter, otherwise, I will have to deal with this situation. Eugine, I do hope you get better, for all our sakes. May I ask just one question to put upon you, what shall we do about Gwendolen and her affairs?
www a thoroughly creditable and energetic response. You have drawn from the text, observed and used some narrative detail and tried to emulate the way in which Lady B speaks.
ReplyDeleteebi however, and it is I'm afraid a bit of a big however, it is very hard to read and doesn't make grammatical sense. My advice to you is to construct sentences which you feel confident are accurate rather than leap boldly into your own approximation of Wilde's extravagant and flowery expression. Look, I'm doing it myself!
The point is really that you will get marked down for your grammar more than getting marked up for your brave but flawed attempt to create Wildean dialogue.
Tip: examine more closely HOW the characters speak, deconstruct a sentence or two to understand they way they construct their sentences and THEN write using the same structures.
I don't understand
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