1.Oscar Wilde Wilde expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption,their snobbery, and their hypocrisy in his plays,especially in his masterpiece,The Importance of Being Earnest(1895).❖ 1. Oscar Wilde ❖ Wilde expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption, their snobbery, and their hypocrisy in his plays, especially in his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)