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Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ A Trivial Comedy For Serious People is a play about two friends Jack Worthing and Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff. In order to get away from their lives the two men invent fictitious characters to explain their absence (Jack invents Earnest while Algy invents Bunbury) from the country in Jack's case and town in Algy's. To complicate matters the two men then fall in love Jack with Gwendolen, Algy’s cousin and Algy with Jacks ward Cecily. Both women believe the men’s names are Earnest. Even when the two couples become engaged the women are still unaware of the fact that there fiancés names are not Earnest. But despite the lies, the play ends happily for both couples.

In the play Wilde portrait’s being earnest as superficially as possible. It does not mean sincere and fair as the word implies, it simply means having the name Earnest. The characters in the play are inspired and controlled by a hollow and fake set of social......

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