{"id":19420,"date":"2023-05-10T23:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-cup-of-tea-by-katherine-mansfield-the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T23:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:27:54","slug":"a-cup-of-tea-by-katherine-mansfield-the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-cup-of-tea-by-katherine-mansfield-the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield   &#038; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both of these texts (A Cup of Tea &amp; The Importance of Being Earnest) critique societies that were very materialistic, hierarchal, and superficial. Think about the characters who display these traits and compare them to people in today\u2019s world. <\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Do you think that the society you live in is more or less materialistic and superficial than the worlds depicted in these texts? What role does status play today? Write a persuasive essay in which you compare today\u2019s society with the society reflected in both texts.\n<\/div>\n<div>Make an argument for whether today\u2019s society has become more or less entrenched in these traits. Consider things like social media \u2013 TikTok, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter and or Facebook.\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both of these texts (A Cup of Tea &amp; The Importance of Being Earnest) critique societies that were very materialistic, hierarchal, and superficial. Think about the characters who display these traits and compare them to people in today\u2019s world. Do you think that the society you live in is more or less materialistic and superficial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}