Importances Beaing Ernest (Literature of Victorians)

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PAPER NO.104 LITERATURE
OF THE VICTORIANS
TOPIC: CHARACTER STUDY OF
JACK WORTHING(IMPORTANCES
BEAING ERNEST)
NAME: PANDYA MAYURI.M
ROLL NO:25
EMAIL ID:pandyamayuri0610@gmail.com
Batch-2021-2023
Submitted to:Shree S.B.Gardi Department
of English Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. AUTHOR: Oscar Wilde
•Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856-1900), the Irish poet and
writer, was popular for his dramatic portrayals of the human conditions
in the Victorian age, in the late nineteenth century.
• He became famous, especially when citizens of Britain were able to
embrace and appreciate literature.
•He wrote many poems, short stories, and plays.
• In his writings he criticized the Victorian society for its negative
features, like hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness, double-standards, sexual
repression, and class-consciousness.
•Wilde criticized the Victorians in his masterpiece The Importance of
Being Earnest, especially its social aristocratic life, the social class
system, the attitudes of marriage, and the duality of human.

3. Moral
True
Lover
Intelligent
Kind
Best liar
Quality in Character of Jack
Worthing

4. Character of Jack Worthing
•Jack Worthing, the play’s protagonist ,was discovered as
an infant by the late Mr. Tomas Cardew in handbag in the
Clockroom of a railway station in London.
•Jack has grown up to be a seemingly, responsible and
respectable young man, a major landowner and justice of
the peace in Heartfordshire,where he has a country estate.
•He is Guardian of Mr.Cardew’s granddaughter,Cecily,and
has other duties and people who depend on him, including
servants,tenants,farmers,and the local clergyman.
•More than any other character in the play,Jack Worthing
represents conventional Victorian values:he wants others
to think he adheres to such notions as duty,honour,and
respectability,but he hypocritically flouts those very
nations.

5. •Wilde was actually satirizing through Jack was the general
tolerance for hypocrisy in conventional Victorian morality.
•Jack uses his alter-ego Ernest to keep his honorable image
intact.
•His hypocrite character has changed into honest character.

6. EARNEST
•Jack uses his fictionbrother to excuse him to go London looking for
pleasure.
•He meets Gwendolen Fairfax, the daughter of Lady Bracknell
•The romance between Jack and Gwendolen was raisingin London.
•At that time,the name of Ernest has become popular among ladies.
•The name of Ernest seemsto give satisfactionor gurantee in life for
Gwendolen and Jack’s niece (Ward) Cecily.
•Jack was introduced himselfas Ernest to Gwendolen.
•Jack triedto propose Gwendolen.He triedto send a signal to Gwendolen that
his real name is not Earnestbut Jack.

7. •Gwendolen rejected to get married with a whose name was
Jack
•She thought that Ernest is a nice name and it was a name
that any women would agree to get married with.
•Jack was facing many challenges in order to achieve his
happiness with Gwendolen.

8. Compare the characters
of Jack and Algernon
JACK
•30 Years old
•Presumably an
orphan
•The guardian of a
Cecily.
•As it was,his protector
was rich man, and
Jack enjoy a home in
the country.
Algernon
•Young
•Belong to aristocrat
living.
•He is characterized by
always being hungry, or
Eafing.
He does not have any
cares for
marriage,family,respecta
bility nor responsibility.

9. •His character quite
favorable for marriage
based on his income,
but his lack of family
history makes it a
burden for him to marry
hid lady love
Gwendolyn.
•Jack escapes to the city
under the name of
Ernest.
•He owes money to
several debt collectors,
and he is apparently more
worried about being
fashionable, acquainted
and febthan stable.
•Algernon escapes to the
country under the name of
his invalid friend named
“Bunbury.”

10. Resources:
•MORAL MESSAGE REVEALED IN
JACK WORTHING’S CHARACTER
DEVELOPMENT IN WILDE’S THE
IMPORTANTE OF BEING EARNEST –
AN ONDERGRADVATE THESIS BY
PRESETIO WIJAKSONO-SANATAN
DRAMA UNIVERSITY-YOGYAKARTA-
2007(PAGE NO.8,11,12)
•Epic Notes.Blogspot.com
(Tuesday,July 17 2012)
•https://www.Cliffnotes.com-first
page (Character Development in
Wilde’s the Importances of being
Ernest)
•https://www.sparknotes.com-first
section

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