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Lady Bracknell. Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself . . . Wilde uses Lady Bracknell’s words to poke fun at marriage by having her

Answer 1

Question: Wilde uses Lady Bracknell's words to poke fun at marriage by having her

Answer: Imply that young women do not have a choice in their own marriages.

Explanation: When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him says it right there in the paragraph

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Answer 2

Its B.imply that young women do not have a choice in their own marriages.

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