Dishonesty as displayed in The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet and A Streetcar Named Desire 2 Articles

by Stephanie King

The common theme in The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet and A Streetcar Named Desire is a lack of honesty. The characters in these plays disguise the truth from themselves and others, in order to ease or avoid the disc...read more

by Beverley Davies

Picking up on this ready-made topic, I must say this choice of (excellent) plays smacks of a somewhat arbitrary school essay. Personally I had never seen 'dishonesty' as a major theme that unifies them across their genres...read more