Jack And Algernon

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It is a well known phenomenon that many authors' lives are reflected through a character in their work. In Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, the double life, or double identity, can be seen as the central metaphor in the play, epitomized in Algernon's creation of "Bunbury" or "Bunburying". As this term is the only fictitious word employed throughout the text, it is crucial to critically analyze not only its use and implications, but more importantly, the character who coins the term; Algernon Moncrieff. In addition, it is also significant to note the marked differences between Algernon and Jack's perceptions of the notion of bunburying, as it further develops Algernon's character within the text. But perhaps the single most

Algernon is demonstrated as a comical character. He is also shown to be a liar and this is seen when he tells Lady Bracknell that there were “no cucumbers in the market” to make the cucumber sandwiches; when he ate them all. He is also very open with women and engages is physical contact before permission from Cecily’s guardian, Jack. Algernon also meets Cecily in a wrong manner as he runs off to Jack’s country house uninvited; which isn’t reflective of an Ideal Victorian man at all.

The relationship between Algernon and Cecily undergoes an irony too. At the first meeting between them Algernon begs her not to think him wicked, and she replies:

Jack is overjoyed to find out that Gwendolyn returns his feelings. However, she is taken with the name Ernest and would not consider marrying a man by any other name, especially Jack. Lady Bracknell interviews Jack to determine if he qualifies as a possible future husband for her daughter. When she discovers that Jack doesn’t know who his parents are because he was found in a handbag she is outraged; she forbids a union between the two, declaring it scandalous. In the next scene Algernon shows up in Jacks country estate pretending to be Ernest and falls in love with Cecily.

Algernon Moncreiff on the other hand, lied to get to the coutnry so he could find something more genuine as opposed to the false honesty of the city. Again, one sees the same dichotomy as one would see in Jack. Alge lied to get to Cecily, his true love, which again is genuine. Cecily Cardew has a dichotomous personality as well. On the outside, Cecily appears to be innotcent and very victorian like, which represents the victorian dewfinitionof honesty. However, if one dug a little deeper, they would see that Cecily is much like a female version of a dandy. She has wicked thoughts, which represent her genuine, truly honest self.

Gwendolyn and Cecily act as friends until they learn that they are supposedly engaged to the same person. Then they learn neither of them are engaged to anybody named Ernest, and are friends again. In act three, we discover Jacks history, including that he is Algernon's elder brother. In the end, despite several lies, arguments, and much turmoil, everybody gets married.

Oscar Wilde, displays a series of lies and deceit in his drama, The Importance of Being Earnest. The two main characters, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff both lie about their true identity to their future wives. Algernon refers this to “Bunburying.” Jack continuously lies to Cecily about having a brother, and “lies” to Gwendolyn telling her his real name is Ernest. Gwendolyn and Jack are in love and Jack as proposed.

He shows this throughout little-scattered comments in the play and Algernon blatantly saying that marriage is not something that is very pleasant. Some of his more poignant criticisms of a Victorian marriage is of how people would happily get married to people who they did not know as long as it was an advantageous pairing. It is mentioned many times and is a central idea of the play that the two couples, Jack and Gwendolyn and Algernon and Cecily, barely know even the simplest facts about each other. In Jack and Gwendolyn’s case, she did not even know his eye color for the longest time. With Algernon and Cecily, she was ready to marry him before they ever even saw each other.

Dating, engagement, and marriage is viewed differently for men and women of all ages. Before meeting Cecily Algernon was spoke of the displeasure of watching Gwendolen and Jack flirt with each other (1408). Algernon like many modern men are content living the bachelor

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Jack and Algernon enter the house and they end up begging for forgiveness. The women forgive them and the two couples fall into each other's arm, then enters lady Bracknell. She is opposed to the idea of Gwendolen and Jack being engaged, but when she hears the Cecily and Algernon are to be engaged she inquires into Cecily's past and fortune and she approvers of her and the engagement

In Wilde Importance of being Earnest in the first scene there was humor in there. Algernon was stuffing his face. Wilde likes to make fun of all Victorians from the upper classes. He make fun of their class values, makes refers to men liking men, and he even uses landmarks that are familiar to the upper classes. Jack and Algernon have a double life or living life through masks. We know Algernon is from the upper classes. People think self-gratification can be a powerful tool against the Victorian values of duty/virtue (Summary and Analysis Act I: Part 1). Whenever they talk about food, they refer to lust. They will never talk about it in polite society.

Jack illustrates the purpose of deception by using Earnest to escape his role of warden to Cecily. When Algernon finds Jack’s cigarette case, he is shocked to find the name Jack graven inside. Jack attempts to explain by saying, “[M]y name is Ernest

In Act 2 of the Wilde’s play Gwendolyn and Cecily both confront Jack and Algernon about their names. Both men confess that they have been wearing disguises and leading double lives in order to maintain relationships with them. They both apologize for their actions and admit that they have not lived up to the values and attributes associated with the name Earnest. Initially, Gwendolyn and Cecily want nothing to do with them because they feel deceived and betrayed. However, they both decide to forgive them only if they change their names to Earnest. Jack and Algernon agree to “become Ernest through baptism” (Bastiat 3) because they do not want to lose them and what to live according to societies’