Presentation on paper name the victorian age of M.A sem 1 topic about character study Jack Worthing "importance of being Earnest"

1. Character study - jack worthing "Importance of
Being Earnest"
Presented by Asha Rathod
asharathod1451@gmail.com
M.A -Sem: 1(2023-25)
Submitted to smt. S. B. Gardi Department
of English, Bhavnagar
Subject Code: 22392
Paper No : 104 Literature of the Victorians
Roll No : 04

2. AUTHOR : Oscar Wilde
● Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16th,
1854 in Dublin, 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 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.
(1854-1900)

3. Quality in Character of Jack
Worthing
1 Moral
2 True lover
3 Intelligent
4 Kind
5 Best liar

4. Character of Jack Worthing
● Jack worthing , The play’s Protagonist, Was discovered as an infant by the
late Mr. Thomas Cardew in handbag in the Cloakroom of a railway station in
London.
● Jack has grown up to be a seemingly, responsible and respectable young
man. A major landowner and justice ofThe peace in Hertfordshire, 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
conventions victorian values ; He wants others to thinks He addressed 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. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a
painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything
of the kind. However, I will tell you quite frankly that I have no brother
Ernest. I have no brother at all. -Jack worthing

7. Earnest
★ Jack uses his fiction brother 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 raising in London .
★ At that time , the name of Ernest has become popular among ladies.
★ The name of Ernest seems to give satisfaction or guarantee in life for
gwendolen and jack’s niece (ward) cecily.
★ Jack was introduced himself as Ernest to Gwendolen.
★ Jack was tried to propose Gwendolen . He tries to send a single to
Gwendolen that his real name is not Earnest but Jack .
★ Gwendolen rejected to get married with a whose name was Jack
★ She thought that Ernest is a nice name and It was name that any women
would agree to get marrieds with.
★ Jack was facing many challenges in order to achieve his happiness with
Gwendolen .

8. Jack
Compare the characters of Jack and
Algernon
Algernon
● 30 Years old
● Presumablyan orphan
● The guardian of cecily
● As it was,hisprotector was richman and jack
enjoy a home in a country
● His character quite favorable for marriage
based on his income, but hislack of family
history makes it a burden for him to marry lady
love Gwendolen.
● Jack escapes to the city underthe name of
Ernest
● Young
● Belong to aristocrat living .
● He is characterizedby always being
hungry or eating
● He doesnot have any cares for marriage,
family , respectability and responsibility
● He owes money to several debt collectors
and he is apparently more worriedabout
being fashionable , acquainted and
fabthan stable
● Algernon escapes to the
country underthe name
of his invalid friend
named bunbury

9. Resources
● Foster, Richard. JSTOR, 18 october 1956,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/372764.
● WIJAKSONO, PRASETIO. 9 March 2019,
https://123dok.com/document/qm8kke4z-
messages-revealed-worthing-character-
development-importance-earnest-repository.html.
● Accessed 6 November 2023.

10. Thank You