The Institution of Marriage in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Susan Glaspell's Wastes of time Oscar Wilde energetically assaults the establishment of hetero marriage in his play The Importance of Being Earnest by utilizing light parody so as to depict characters that are shallow, juvenile, and absent about the responsibility into which they are going to enter. Marriage is additionally brutally evaluated in Susan Glaspell's play Fools, a play that investigates the hardships that ladies must face inside the establishment of marriage and the catastrophe that comes upon one lady pushed past her limit. The two plays are cruelly disparaging of the organization of marriage, one through light mocking parody and the other through a grievous anecdote about a bombed marriage. Be that as it may, the serious effect of the more reasonable story inside Wastes of time gives a progressively brutal comprehension of the establishment of marriage than does the parody, which its crowd can undoubtedly dismiss.