The Importance Of Being Ernest

CONTENTS

Summary of the book’s characters:

• ERNEST (JACK) WORTHING..............................................................2

• ALGERNON MONCRIEF........................................................................3

• CECILY CARDEW...................................................................................4

• LADYBRACKNELL.................................................................................5

• GWENDOLEN FAIRTAX.......................................................................6

Personal appreciation of the story....................................................7

ERNEST (JACK) WORTHING

More known as Jack Worthing.

He was abandoned when he was a baby and he was given shelter by Mr.

Cardew, who looked after him till hedied.

After that, Jack became the guardian of Mr. Cardew’s daughter, Cecily.

They live in the same house in the country, but Jack lives too in the town as

Ernest Worthing, a false brother with very bad reputation that Jack has

invented in order to have the possibility to do everything he wants without

any kind of problems. Jack is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax but she knows

him asErnest Worthing.

So I’d say that Jack has invented two people in the same person and

every time he uses one character or the other he changes his personality.

On the one hand, when he takes the name of Jack, he’s very sensitive

because he’s supposed to look after a young girl (Cecily). On the other hand,

when he changes the role as Ernest, he’s the person he’d like to be.

Hisspeaking is very clear and clean. He’s voice doesn’t change but when he

is with Gwendolen (surely because they both talk in a love attitude)

ALGERNON MONCRIEF

He is a person who likes to argue for everything, is extremely educated and

a few strict, he lives in the town but when he wants to go out to enjoy himself he

has a technique called Bunburyist, it consists of make this familybelieve that he

has a friend called Mr. Bunbury who has very bad health and due to that

Algernon has to visit him many times. In one of his leavings Algernon falls in love

with Cecily when he was doing like he was Ernest Worthing (because he knew Jack

had invented a person who doesn’t exist and tries to help Jack in some way making

that lie more real).

Algernon andJack are good friends so the fact of the two of them falling in love

with the same girl (Cecily) make things more complicated. That situation will prove

how selfish are Ernest and Algernon (I cannot say who’s most)

He’s also attached to Gwendole due to he is her cousin.

I love this character. I like a lot his voice (it makes me laugh). It really

goes with the kind of person heis. He’s a very ironic person and that makes

his intonation get the characteristics of an ironical voice. In my opinion he

speaks quite fast.

CECILY CARDEW

She is the ward of Jack Worthing, she lives in a country house with her

governess Ms. Prism (a woman well educated and very cultured, that lives

dedicated to educate Cecily).

Cecily is a nice, young lady, very impatient,romantic and a few crazy.

As the same as Gwendolen she wants to get married to somebody called

Ernest. She also writes some letters to Ernest thinking in that way she will

reach a long and strong relationship with him. Things turn bad for her when

she knows the person of Ernest doesn’t exist and that everything she loved

was just a lie. However, she continues loving him as she hasbeen doing it

before.

Concerning her speaking style I have to say that she has made me go crazy

with the way she speaks. She does it too fast and irregular that makes

understanding her very difficult.

I’d say that her intonation often turns into a sweet intonation (the same

voice youth use but that is comprehensive because after all she is just 18)

LADY BRACKNELL

She is...