Dishonesty

Dishonesty sometimes holds a major role in humor, like some people may use sarcasm but others can just lie straight off and make humorous remarks that can turn into gossip. Being dishonest is one of the things comedians do, they make up stories and can also make stuff up about someone in the crowd if they are on stage and making jokes. But dishonesty is at its worst in the way of social institutions, like marriage for example, a married man lies about whether or not he is married just to pick someone up. Or maybe dishonesty can be used for religion and social class, dishonesty works in the same way for both, one can lie about ones class/religion in order to not be discriminated against, like a group of people who are a higher class and are all a different religion.

Also as Wilde shows in his play, The Importance of being Earnest, Wilde shows how high class citizens in the 19/18th century acted out their lives and their pursuit of pleasure. Wilde is showing a satirical view on high class people where they pursuit only pleasure and do not work at all, they always make an excuse to skip work. Take Algernon as an example, he actually tells people he needs to be somewhere to "miss an appointment" where no one in modern day society would say that. Wilde has shown how back then people had just viewed life, in the play life, as a big pleasure, maybe they didn't actually view it that way, but in the play, they were dishonest everyday just to pursue pleasure.