It
is with great pleasure that we post this video filmed by MariLuz and Carmen
from 4th year B/C. The students made the video to participate in the
"I Concurso de Escenas de Amor" (1st Love Scene Contest) Their love
scene is part of the play by Oscar Wilde “The Importance of Being Earnest”. Read below if you want to learn about this
famous play
Es un enorme placer publicar este
video filmado por MariLuz y Carme, de 4º de ESO B/C. Las alumnas hicieron este
video para participar en el I Concurso de Escenas de Amor. La suya corresponde
a la obra de teatro de Oscar Wilde “La importancia de llamarse Ernesto”. Si
quiere saber un poquito más sobre esta famosa obra, te lo explicamos más abajo.
Jack
Worthing, the play’s protagonist, is a major landowner and justice of the peace
in Hertfordshire, with tenants, farmers, and a number of servants and other
employees all-dependent on him. For years, he has also pretended to have an
irresponsible black-sheep brother named Ernest who leads a scandalous life in
pursuit of pleasure and is always getting into trouble of a sort that requires
Jack to rush grimly off to his assistance. In fact, Ernest is merely Jack’s
alibi, a phantom that allows him to disappear for days at a time and do as he
likes. No one but Jack knows that he himself is Ernest. Ernest is the name Jack
goes by in London, which is where he really goes on these occasions—probably to
pursue the very sort of behaviour he pretends to disapprove of in his imaginary
brother.
Jack is in
love with Gwendolen Fairfax. In this scene Jack has an opportunity to propose
to Gwendolen. At the beginning, Jack is delighted to discover that Gwendolen
returns his affections, but he is alarmed to learn that Gwendolen is fixated on
the name Ernest, which she says “inspires absolute confidence.” Gwendolen makes
clear that she would not consider marrying a man who was not named Ernest.
Jack
Worthing, caballero inglés tutor de la joven Cecily, debe adoptar una postura
de seriedad y adultez para poder educarla. Pero para relajarse de tal
obligación, inventa un hermano llamado Ernest, que lleva una vida de
despilfarro y libertinaje en Londres, por lo que le sirve a Jack como excusa
para viajar a la ciudad y, con el pretexto de tener que corregir su conducta,
logra escapar de sus deberes y divertirse. Jack tiene un compañero de juerga.
Jack está
enamorado de Gwendolen Fairfax. En este escena, tiene la oportunidad de pedirle
matrimonio. Al principio, Jack está encantado, pues Gwendolen le corresponde en
sus sentimientos. Sin embargo, enseguida descubre alarmado que Gwendolen está
obsesionada con su nombre ficticio “Ernesto”. Un nombre que según ella
transmite absoluta confianza. Gwendolen deja claro que jamás se le ocurriría
casarse con un hombre que no se llamase Ernesto.
Hay que
aclarar que el título en inglés de la obra, The importance of being earnest,
ofrece un juego de palabras, ya que “earnest” (serio u honesto, en su
traducción) suena fonéticamente igual a Ernest, nombre del hermano imaginario
de Jack, que es todo menos serio.
