 Though Wilde deployed characters that were by now familiar — the <unk> lord , the overbearing <unk> , the woman with a past , the puritan young lady — his treatment is <unk> than in his earlier comedies . Lady Bracknell , for instance , embodies respectable , upper @-@ class society , but <unk> notes how her development " from the familiar overbearing <unk> into a <unk> and more disturbing character " can be traced through Wilde 's revisions of the play . For the two young men , Wilde presents not stereotypical stage " <unk> " but intelligent beings who , as Jackson puts it , " speak like their creator in well @-@ formed complete sentences and rarely use slang or vogue @-@ words " . Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism are characterised by a few light touches of detail , their old @-@ fashioned <unk> , and the Canon 's <unk> <unk> , <unk> down by Wilde during his many <unk> of the text . 
