Importance of Being Earnest

Researching about the Victorian Era helped me understand the play a lot, I knew more about the classes during that time, and marriage. I learned that the rich didn't do any work to earn what they got because it was passed down to them from their parents, just like Jack and Algernon in the play. Algernon even said it was " awfully hard work doing nothing" which was ironic because doing nothing isn't work, and lower class families that have opportunities to not work were happy unlike most of the richer classes that smoked and drank as something to do.
With marriage being really different from today, the women had little choice of their husbands because if a rich male that they hated wanted to marry them, their mother/father had the choice of engaging them, marriage at that time was basically an investment, and that is true because Lady Bracknell didn't want Gwendolen to marry Jack, but she will love him even though she will marry many times, she is going to marry many times to old guys that die, and she will get the money. Marriage was satirized many times in the play, marriage was thought to be of a demeaning commitment to a mans life when Lane said " I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first rate brand" basically meaning that once you get married your life will just go downhill