After finishing Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as a collection of a few other stories from this time period, I think I can say fairly honestly that I'll miss these stories and this era in the coming months.
The Importance of Being Earnest was extremely well done. It was one of the few works that we've read that focused almost entirely on humor, and it was certainly humorous. Oscar Wilde's wit shines through the text as though he were soaking to us directly. I actually imagined that it was literally Oscar Wilde talking to us as Algernon; their personalities seem to be a 1:1 match.
Likewise, the short stories that we read from Sherlock Holmes were phenomenal. I was shocked to discover how closely the BBC Series Sherlock stayed to the original text, even taking jokes right from the stories. It also updates the jokes to be more applicable to current times, but the humor present here is still quite relevant, even with such an enormous gap in time period.
Working with these stories has been a joy, and I'll be very sad to move on from them. They've brought some much - needed laughs to our class, and I don't think that we're likely to find many laughs in The Handmaid's Tale or in Heart of Darkness.
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