The Character List of the importance of being Earnest
The Character List of John (Jack /Ernest)
Character List of Algernon
Gwendolen Fairfax
Cecily Cardew
Lady Bracknell
Miss Prism
Lane
Rev. Canon Cashuble, D.D
The Character List of John (Jack /Ernest)
The main Character List of the play. Jack Worthing is an apparently responsible young man leading a double life. Jack has known as Jack in Hertfordshire. Where he owns a property. He has named Ernest in London. As a boy, an old man took him up and then turned Jack to his granddaughter. Cecily Cardew found Jack in a hand-sack in the cloakroom of Victoria Station. Jack is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, his pal Algernon’s cousin. The initials of his name show him to be a Justice of Peace.
The Character List of Algernon
Highlight the action. Algernon has a beautiful, lazy, ornamental, Lady Bracknell’s nephew, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax. Jack Worthing’s best pal whom he has known as Ernest for years. Algernon has brilliance, wisdom, selfhood, amorality, and delicious epigrammatic and paradoxical pronunciations have given. It invented a fictitious friend, “Bunbury,” an invalid. Whose often awkward or boring social duties enable Algernon to wallow.
Gwendolen Fairfax
The relative of Algernon and the child of Lady Bracknell. Jack. Whom she knows as Ernest is in love with Gwendolen. Gwendolen talks about taste and morals with unspeakable authority. A model of high-mode and culture arbiter. She is intelligent and cultured, cosmopolitan. Gwendolen is fixed on the Ernest name, saying that she would not marry a ma without that name.
Character List of Cecily Cardew
Jack’s ward, old gentleman’s granddaughter who, when Jack was an infant, met and adopted Jack. This is also the character most believable in the game. She was as fascinated with the name Ernest as Gwendolen. But the notion of wickedness was far more intriguing. Rather than the name of the noble one. This notion led her to love Ernest’s brother Jack and concoct a complex romance and courtesy between her.
Lady Bracknell
Snobbish Algernon, mercenary, and aunt of dominion, and mother Gwendolen. Well married Lady Bracknell, and the only objective of her life is that her daughter does likewise. She has a list of “skilled young men” and a ready interview with prospective supporters. Like her nephew, Lady Bracknell makes hilarious statements. But in speeches of Lady Bracknell, where Algernon is witty, humor is involuntary. Through the figure of Lady Bracknell, Wilde manages to satirize. The hypocrisy and stupidity of the British aristocracy. Lady Bracknell values ignorance, which she sees as “a delicate exotic fruit.” She likes to eat with her husband downstairs while she takes a dinner party with the slaves. – The servants. She’s crafty, restrictive, totalitarian, and maybe the most quotable. The main actor the play character.
Miss Prism
The governess of Cecily. Miss Prism is a source of countless pedantic clichés and bromides. She strongly endorses Jack’s perceived respectability and criticizes his “unfortunate” sibling harshly. While pure, the serious pronouncements of Miss Prism encourage amusement and go too far over the top. Miss Prism seems to have a lighter side despite its rigidity. She says that she wrote a book once which had been “lost” or “abandoned” in her manuscript. She also entertains Dr. Chasuble’s love thoughts.
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.
The rector at the estate of Jack. The two approach Dr. Jack and Algernon to ask for “Ernest” to be named. For Miss Prism, Dr. Chasuble has hidden love feelings. Initials after his name mean “Doctor of Godhood.”
Lane
The manservant of Algernon. As the game begins, Lane is the only one knowing Algernon’s “Bunburying” technique. In Act I only, Lane emerges.
Merriman
Manor House butler, the country estate of Jack. The butler. Only in Acts II and III does Merriman appear.