The Importance of Being Earnest

Wilde?s The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of mistaken identities

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) is about two fashionable young gentlemen and their eventually successful courtship.
John Worthing ( who prefers to call himself Jack) tells that he has a brother called Ernest, but in town John himself is known as Ernest. Algernon Moncrieff (Algy) also pretends to be the profligate brother Ernest. He tells that he has a very ill friend called Mr Bunbury.
If they want to go somewhere they ?use ? these persons (Ernest and Mr Bunbury). Most of the funny things which happen in the story base on this change of identities.
At the beginning Algernon asks Jack: ?Why are you Ernest in the town and Jack in the country?? The answer is:
?When one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. It?s one?s duty to do so. And as a high moral t...