The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a trivial comedy for serious people. Perhaps the single reason that Oscar Wilde's play has endured as one of the greatest and most popular works of literature to surface from Victorian England is its radiant wit, which expresses both humor and social satire. The play focuses on the elite, and while making fun of their ludicrousness and extremes, it exposed in their amusing mockery and rambunctious lives. Wilde was certainly a shrewd social critic, but it is his out of control wit that sets him apart.
             The play is about two young men, Algernon and Jack, in their twenties. The two lead women are Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen, who is in love with Jack, and Jack's ward Cecily, who is in love with Algernon. Jack, who lives in the country, makes up an imaginary brother named Earnest. Jack proposes to Gwendolen and is rejected by her mother, Lady Bracknell. Gwendolen decides to meet Jack at his country estate to figure out what to do. When jack goes into town, he is known by earnest. Algernon goes into the country to meet Cecily, after sneakily ease dropping to get the address, and tells her that he is Jack's brother, Earnest. In return, he proposes and they are engaged to be married. The odd thing is that Gwendolen and Cecily are both in love with this so called "Earnestâ€" guy and have to marry him all because the name Earnest. The women meet and like each other calling one another "sisterâ€" and start talking. They both find out that they are engaged to a man called Earnest. They confront their men, who are mad at each other because Algernon shows up and did not tell Jack. They do not know what to say. Algernon after a few seconds confesses to Cecily that he lied to her only so that he could have a chance to see her, and Jack came clean to Gwendolen that he lied to her about having a brother so that he could spend mor
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