In Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the standards for love are seriously messed up, relationships in this piece revolve around a persons looks and their name. Love is normally something based upon mutual feelings for one another and not just social class and who could makeup the best deceiving lie to make oneself look better. For example:
“Cecily: Mr. Moncrieff, kindly answer me the following question. Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brother?
Algernon: In order that I might have an opportunity of meeting you.
Cecily: [To Gwendolen] That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not” (III.14-16).
In this example we can see how the character used lies to make themselves appear more attractive and desirable. In this
“Cecily: Mr. Moncrieff, kindly answer me the following question. Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brother?
Algernon: In order that I might have an opportunity of meeting you.
Cecily: [To Gwendolen] That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not” (III.14-16).
In this example we can see how the character used lies to make themselves appear more attractive and desirable. In this