Answer:
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Step-by-step explanation:
1. Overindulgence or excess is represented by food. When given muffins or cucumber sandwiches, for example, Algernon can't stop eating them, indicating that his appetites are just as excessive as his eccentric, flamboyant, and extravagant persona. Oscar Wilde uses food as an essential motif /symbol of an act of working out problems. The Victorian tradition of having tea at noon plays a significant role in the play.
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The items that make up the various ways that Jack and Algernon live double lives are largely where we find the symbolism in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Food, as well as its extravagant and careless consumption, is one of these symbols. We discover that Algernon and Jack's alter ego, Ernest, both have a propensity for overindulging at pricey restaurants and then failing to pay the bills. Jack feels happy about this, as though being "bad" was his goal. This is significant because Ernest, who is Jack when he lives in the country, is a role model for good manners and responsibility because he is in charge of the manor that his adoptive father has given him and because Cecily, who is his ward, is under his care. For Jack and Algernon, food is a key to freedom because it exemplifies excess at its finest: run your bills, enjoy your meals, and avoid paying. In Victorian England, a group of people who live double lives and partaken in extravagances is considered the true so-called rich. Food also makes an appearance in Cecily and Gwendolen's fight, where the girls use tea, cake, bread and butter, and sugar as social status symbols. Whoever utilised one item would establish her dominance over the other.