The Theme Of Algernon Marriage Quotes

1. THEME
 Marriage
Most of the story talked about marriage. Started from the Algernon conversation with Lane, Lady Bracknell’s plan to match Algernon with Mary Farquhar, the engagement of Jack and Gwendolen, the engagement of Cecily and Algernon, even the marriage of Lady Bracknell and the unmarried Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism.
 Social class
Social class is shown clearly in this novel by Lady Bracknell. She always behave coldly to people who were in the lower class than her. Her rejection to Jack’s proposal to her daughter because of his unknown family and not having a great wealth shows that the social class is still important in the story.

2. MAIN CHARACTERS
a. Major Characters
 John Worthing : John Worthing also called as Jack is the same person as …show more content…
He is the cousin of Gwendolen and the best friend of Jack. However, he is different with Jack. Algy do not want to stop the bunburrying because it gives a lot of advantages to him. (p.11) He is a crafty man who was very good on lying. He even lied to his aunt about the cucumber sandwiches (p.13), lied that he laughed about the Bunburry when the real cause was he got Jack’s address in the country and pretended to be Ernest Worthing, the brother of Jack in order to meet Cecily and to run away from all of his responsibility in his debts. (p.26; p.64)
 Lady Bracknell: Her real name was Augusta but in most of the story she is called as Lady Bracknell. Aunt of Algernon and mother of Gwendolen. She is an authoritative woman who wanted to controlled about everything, even for the suitable wife for her nephew (p.10; p.13; p.62) . She is mercenary even though she said she against it (p.64). This is known by her act of agreed with the engagement of her nephew and Cecily when she knew that Cecily inherit a great wealth. (p.63) Even claimed as antagonist, in the end of the story, Lady Bracknell is the one who knew about Jack’s real