The man of Lois Lane 's dreams is closer than she thinks. Both Jack and Algernon feel the need to create a reason to escape the constraints of their lives because of the taxing nature of these expectations. He has invented an alter-ego, a fictional brother named 'Ernest,' to help him escape his dreary and dutiful life in the country: 'When one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. Algernon Moncrieff is a member of the wealthy class, living a life of total bachelorhood in a fashionable part of London. For Jack, 'Ernest' is an alter ego, an identity through which he can court Gwendolen and cavort in the pleasures of city life. Gwendolyn knows nothing about Jack, but knows the man she loves as Earnest. Prism, who recounts a story that clears up Jack's identity and reveals him to be Algy's lost brother. After this first instance of role-playing, the name Bunbury, or the term Bunburying comes to apply primarily to the two male leads throughout the rest of the play, and to equate to a false identity. Why does Jack upset Algernon? However, Gwendolen is obsessed with the name of Ernest and cannot think of a man whose name is not Ernest. As an alter ego of Wilde, Jack represents the idea of leading a life of respectability on the surface (in the country) and a life of deception for pleasure (in the city). Art and artifice merge as Grayson Perry uses his alter-ego, Claire, to express his creativity and identity. The man that Jack has created is named Ernest. The fictional brother is Jack's alibi, his excuse for disappearing from Hertfordshire and going off to London to escape his responsibilities and indulge in exactly the sort of behavior he pretends to disapprove of in his brother.

All the characters in The Importance of Being Earnest are Bunburying in one way or another.

The persona of Ernest allows Jack to take off. He is younger than Jack, takes less responsibility, and is always frivolous and irreverent. As Jack will no longer have use for Ernest, Algernon sees an opportunity to assume Ernest's. Algernon assists Jack by suggesting that he died of a chill rather than a hereditary disease that could lower. She says it to show that she at first had no interest in him Miss Prism writes a. Despite his proper and serious outward appearance, Jack is a hedonist. Jack Loves Gwendolen: Despite his deceptive nature, Jack is sincerely in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, the daughter of the aristocratic Lady Bracknell. As a symbol, he is wittiness and aestheticism personified. Jack calls himself Earnest because it is his alter ego, he uses the persona of Earnest as an escape from his life in the country which is his reality that comes along with responsibility.

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