English

An essential piece of equipment

Head: equipment
Premodifier: an essential piece of

Adjectives can be divided into 2 categories:

 Describers
 Classifiers.
In "an essential piece of equipment", "essential" is a describer.

Determiner: reference
 Indefinite
 Specific
 Generic
 Unique: the sun, the moon (only one exists)
"A piece of" is a partitive determiner.

Features of the noun:

 Countable/uncountable (specify if singular or plural)
 Concrete/abstract
 Masculine/feminine/neuter
"Equipment" is uncountable, concrete, and neuter.
 Literature
Act 2
July = summer
Chausible = a piece of clothing that clergymen used.

Cecily. If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable
manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being
really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
 Funny because it is exactly what is happening and because people pretend to be
good when they are bad.

Ernest was going to be sent to "this world, the next world, and Australia".
 To the English, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand were horrendous places.
 Being sent to Australia was terrible, like being sent to Treinta y Tres, or to death.
 "The next world" = death.

Quixotic = quijotesco

Check the internet version: flower part.

SERIES OF IMPROBABLE SITUATIONS.

Jack returns in black clothes (mourning) to fake Ernest death.

Cecily. What is the matter, Uncle Jack? Do look happy! You look as if you had toothache,
and I have got such a surprise for you. Who do you think is in the dining-room? Your
brother!
Jack. Who? Cecily. Your brother Ernest. He arrived about half an hour ago.
Jack. What nonsense! I haven’t got a brother.
 Funny because Algernon and Jack end up being blood-related brothers.
 The Bible's story of the prodigal son.

Algernon and Jack quibbling.

Dog-cart = smallest cart.

Cecily's diary…
 Meant for publication: wouldn't it be the opposite?

GWENDOLEN AND CECILY MEET.

 They tell each other that they are engaged to Ernest.
 They were being really nice until they started to quarrel.
 They were pissed off when they discovered the truth.

Comments:
o Everyone wants to get married in the play.
o Enhances the nonsense of marrying someone that you don´t know just because of,
for example, a surname.
o Marriage is not taken seriously.
o Traditional in the sense that everyone gets married. But it is a negotiaton (act 3).