Earnest Essay: The Importance Of Being Ernest

The “Importance of Being Earnest” is a story of full of deceit and a twisted and tangled tale about love. The story is about a man, named Jack that forms a fake identity to escape the country life; his false persona is named Ernest. Jack tells his family about his “brother” named Ernest and often goes to “visit him” when he needs to get away. Now, Ernest is in fact not a real person but a made up one. When Jack goes to the city and pretends to be Ernest, he goes to meet the love of his life, Gwendolyn and his friend, Agly. Gwendolyn is in love with Jack, who she thinks is Ernest, but she does not love him for who he is, but for his name. Lady Bracknell, Gwendolyn’s mother does not wish for her daughter to marry Ernest because of where he comes
The Importance of Being Ernest presents all three of these different ideas and reactions to love. Although this story was written over 150 years ago, there is the same kind of women today that there were in this book. As the years have passed, many things have changed, but in fact, the way women think about love and react to it has not. In 2015, it is very common for young girls to dream up a make believe relationship with a celebrity or someone they look up to in life. With the insane amount of wealth in the world, there are small-minded and girls that are in if for al the wrong reasons, much like Gwendolen. Women like Lady Bracknell, often find too many flaws on the outside and fail to look on the inside. This will often cause them to push away men that make their daughters happy, but they fail to realize it. Whether it is in the 1800’s or the 2000’s, women look at love, desire it, and base life long decision off of it just the same now as they did years