... laugh at it. This is comedy at its best. "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" as Oscar would say. The Importance of Being Earnest has many major characters. Jack Worthing is a friend of Algernon; he loves Gwendolen and believes his name is Earnest. Algernon Moncrieff is a good friend of Jack and a nephew of Lady Bracknell; he also falls in love with Cecily. Gwendolen Fairfax is the daughter ... Then, to everyones surprise, both Algernon and Jack find out they are named Earnest because their father in the military was named Earnest. The play ends on a peaceful note and they live happily...

• Word Count: 1981
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... play". In the Victorian era, wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants. In The Importance of Being Earnest, however, this is not always the case, as gender role reversal is a common theme throughout the play, which naturally leads to comedy, as during the Victorian Era in the Aristocratic ... in this statement is interesting, as Lady Bracknell puts "I" before "your father", again reinforcing the idea that Lady Bracknell puts herself before her husband in terms of importance. Even though this would...

• Word Count: 2043
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Wilde1 While it is possible to declare Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of being Earnest" as pure nonsense with the only aim to entertain, a closer look reveals its sobriety. Oscar Wilde wrote a comedy of manners, mistaken identity and social conventions.2 The story is set in the English society of the 1890's, the society against whose aristocracy, artificiality and clinging to ... thing for a men to find out."20 After all the trouble caused by the dishonesty and misidentity realises Jack "for the first time in my life the vital importance of Being Earnest."21 Wilde depicted here that...

• Word Count: 1589
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School