![]() Well, Jack made a clean breast of his life, including the detail that he possessed a young and attractive ward by the name of Cecily Cardew back on his estate in Gloucestershire. Jack claimed that he often had to visit his poor brother, Ernest this gave him the opportunity to escape his boring life and have fun with his good friend, Algernon.īut Algernon doubted that Jack was leading a double life when he found a personal message in one of Jack’s cigarette cases. However, for escaping the labour of his highly conservative lifestyle, he created an alter-ego, Ernest, who has all sorts of fun in London. One of them is an upright young man named Jack who lives in the country. Overview of The Importance of Being Earnest: Wilde had to become one of those souls soon after the first performance of his play when he experienced a defamation trial that lead to his imprisonment for being a homosexual. The play is a satire of the hypocrisies of the society in which Wilde lived and the destructive effect that these hypocrisies could have on the souls of those people living under their rule. Its critique of Victorian society, though delivered in a velvet glove, is an iron fist from every inch. (Learn online writing for free via my Amazon Kindle Unlimited ebooks)īut, this apparently light-hearted play has a much dark side. For a lot of people, this is the apex of Wilde's work. The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's most popular and most loved play and is an enormous success in his lifetime. ![]()
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