The Importance Of Being Earnest Essay Introduction

pted of a character he is when he starts teaching Gerald on the craftiness of women , he even starts hinting that being with women outside of marriage has more joy and fulfillment than being married and tied down to one woman by marriage , and Gerald the naive character he is , he seemed to be soaking up everything that Lord illingworth is saying , then in a heart to heart talk with her son , Mr’s Arbuthnot tells Gerald the story of herself and Lord illingworth but without revealing that it was her , she tells him the story as if it had happened to another woman , when she finishes the story , Gerald replies to her saying “ dear mother , it all sounds very tragic , of course, but i dare say the girl was just as much to blame as lord Illingworth …show more content…
The play The Importance of Being Earnest takes a satirical look on the lives of two men who lead double lives to escape from their miserable reality and run away from their responsibilities , in the end their real identities are revealed and discovered which makes them able to lead a more fluffing lives , the comedic play tells the story of Jack Worthing , the play’s protagonist and a man who lives a double life in order to go after the pleasures and excitement he lacks in his own life , a life that he has many responsibilities and things that need taken care of , one of them is being the guardian of a girl named Cecily Cardew and being a landowner with many employees that depend on him , which causes him to get overwhelmed by his own life which leads him to claiming that he has a brother named Earnest so he would be able to take a break from his life and escape his responsibilities , jack lives in the country and he feels like his life is “boring” so when he travels to London as Earnest he acts like a young socialite and he enjoys himself and has lots of fun and when he’s there he calls himself earnest , jack claims that earnest is irresponsible and that he has to keep rescuing him ,Algernon his best friend , does the same thing , Algernon too pretends he has a friend in order to escape his busy city life and go to the country to relax and take a break , Algernon falls in love with no other than Cecily , he pretends to be earnest to gain her approval , eventually their real identities are discovered and they both decide to change their names to earnest in order to gain their love interests approval . The word Earnest is satirized throughout the play , in the victorian time being described as an earnest man is having an admirable qualities , earnest meant being intellectual , sincere , a good