A person cannot always be ethical in their ways and in the Importance of Being Earnest there is hardly a clear moral compass. The Importance of Being Earnest is a satirical story used to poke fun at the immoral and confusing Victorian society. Jack, a bunburist born in a handbag, falls in love with Gwendolyn who loves the name Earnest. If it’s lady Bracknel’s absurd requirements or Gwendolyn’s need for a man named Earnest, there is no limit to sociopaths in this novel. With all this in mind it seems highly unlikely that much could challenge this idea, however Cecily overshoots the theory by a long shot. Cecily is exact and devoid of emotion in ways that seem perfectly normal in her mind. Whether it be falsifying relationships or (just like Gwendolyn) falling in love with the name Earnest, Cecily is not right in her personal motor of a brain. Cecily can be seen acting supercilious to Algernon or before she found out the self-presumed Earnest. Without even meeting Algernon Cecily claimed to have already been married to him. Society of this era is portrayed in …show more content…
Jack and Algernon somehow get themselves in the same exact precarious situation. Jack loves Gwendolyn just as Algernon adores Cecily. Both these women fall deep in the entanglement that is Jack and Algernon’s bunbury called Earnest. This cause for these men to tumble right into a web a duplicate lies that end up clashing as the girls meet. At one point they both say the exact same sentences just as the girls do which produce a sense of irony speaking, “Gwendolyn and Cecily: Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier! That is all!”, next the guys speak saying, “Jack and Algernon: Our Christan names! Is that all? But we are going to be christened this afternoon”. This clears up the embedded idea that irony has a huge role in the disillusioned persons in the