Oscar Wilde, the author of The Importance of Being Ernest, presents different symbols about being earnest. Wilde wants to get across the true point of being earnest. Many people perceive the meaning of being earnest in many different ways. Wilde uses a different method of death, birth, and marriage to embark on a whole new meaning of being earnest in his play The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde uses death as one of his many symbols throughout his play The Importance of Being Earnest. Algernon has a imaginary friend named “Bunbury” that he uses for an excuse to go and visit different places throughout the world. When it is time for Algernon to grow up and quit traveling, because he wants to settle down and get married, he tells everyone
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As Miss Prism was always at the home seemed a little odd. Miss Prism was protecting and watching over Jack. in the end of the play there is a “birth of a new person” that being the truth out bringing of Jack's real name being Ernest. Miss prism admits to leaving the baby in a handbag at a railway station. “I left it in the cloak-room of one of the larger railway stations in London.” (Wilde, 1454) Jack thinks because Miss Prism left him in the handbag that she, Miss Prism, is Jack’s mother. Lady Bracknell soon tells Jack that he is the son of her sister, Lady Bracknell's nephew. Jack wants to eagerly find out what his fathers name is. He also finds out that his claimed brother Algernon is actually his real brother. This is a birth of a new founding relationship opportunity that the two brothers get to share with each other.
There are many different points to being earnest, it is all in how you perceive it to be. Oscar Wilde liked to step outside of the box in his writing. He used what most would not think of earnest to be. Everything in the end turned out to be in everyone's favor. Algernon was able to marry Cecily, even though he was not named Ernest. Jack, Ernest, got to marry his love, Gwendolen. However, will we ever know if Algernon decided to tell the truth about Bunbury, that he was
As Miss Prism was always at the home seemed a little odd. Miss Prism was protecting and watching over Jack. in the end of the play there is a “birth of a new person” that being the truth out bringing of Jack's real name being Ernest. Miss prism admits to leaving the baby in a handbag at a railway station. “I left it in the cloak-room of one of the larger railway stations in London.” (Wilde, 1454) Jack thinks because Miss Prism left him in the handbag that she, Miss Prism, is Jack’s mother. Lady Bracknell soon tells Jack that he is the son of her sister, Lady Bracknell's nephew. Jack wants to eagerly find out what his fathers name is. He also finds out that his claimed brother Algernon is actually his real brother. This is a birth of a new founding relationship opportunity that the two brothers get to share with each other.
There are many different points to being earnest, it is all in how you perceive it to be. Oscar Wilde liked to step outside of the box in his writing. He used what most would not think of earnest to be. Everything in the end turned out to be in everyone's favor. Algernon was able to marry Cecily, even though he was not named Ernest. Jack, Ernest, got to marry his love, Gwendolen. However, will we ever know if Algernon decided to tell the truth about Bunbury, that he was