The Importance of being Earnest - Characters
The Importance of being Earnest - Characters
<b><i>Title:</i> The Importance of Being Earnest
<i>Author:</i> Oscar Wilde
<i>Setting:</i> Begins in a flat in London then proceeds to a manor house in the countryside in the late 1800’s.
<i>Plot:</i> Two men, John Jack Earnest Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, use the deception [a Bunbury] that both their names were Ernest, in order to secure marriage to the women they …
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…he really was seeing his wayward brother. With the truth exposed it also means that Algernon was only lying to Cecily about being named Ernest, because he truly is John Jack Ernest Worthing’s brother. Being earnest is being truthful. The quote that entails this ideal is on pg. 40 [Algernon to Jack] "Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. I happen to be serious about Bunburying..."
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