Eulogy For Algernon

By stating that he did not know anyone by the name of Cecily, Jack initiates his own debacle. He has to clarify that Cecily is actual his ward. Nonetheless, Jack bears no anguish to dissembling to his closest companion. Jack’s morality has been impaired by his lies and it implies that his animalistic qualities control him. Yet, he falls in love and he must tell Gwendolen, his sweetheart, of his morally wrong character. In order to do so Jack has to disclose that Ernest was not in fact his real name but a mere alias created to cover up his dastardly ways. He can think of no other way than to “kill” his brother. Wilde shows how Jack’s urbane nature begins to be marred by his animalism since he was willing to kill a man, fictional or not. Ensuing in the play Jack is speaking with Algernon and he begins to ponder on how to commit the murder. He states “My poor brother Ernest is carried off suddenly in Paris, by a severe chill. That gets rid of him” (Wilde 16). Though fictional, Jack’s murder of Ernest still seems to carry the same implications further into the book. This murder eventually skews his reputation once his lies become known. Wilde proves how Jack’s lies soon catch up to him and flaw his esteemed moral persona. Later in the play Algernon sets off on a trip to Jack’s country estate and claims he is Ernest Worthing. Later when Jack arrives Cecily informs her caretaker that his brother Ernest is in his room. Jack replies

I am not a smart man nor clever boy. I have lived a humble life as a dunce for most part of my early childhood years getting into mischief as a young boy does. As any young boy would, I valued playing around and goofing off a lot more than I did my education. From 2000 to 2009 I was barely passing my elementary school classes even much so I flunked the second grade because of my actions. All of this didn't phase me however, I was an outlaw. I did whatever I wanted because my mother and stepfather worked all day and my sisters couldn't handle me most of the time. So I ended up getting into no good with the local gangsters down in Bryan Street here in the mission.

Jack: “If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won’t want to know Bunbury” – This shows that Jack does want to settle down and is very much in love with Gwendolen. He feels that if he has her in his life, he will no longer need to escape out of where he lives to have fun and be wilder, as he won’t want that anymore.

Cecily pursues a relationship with Algernon the instance they meet. Cecily has constructed her fantasy around the traditional expectations of romance; he ‘proposed’ on Valentine’s Day, she keeps his letters that he ‘wrote’ and has ‘broken off’ the engagement once before as it wouldn’t have been considered a ‘serious engagement’ if it hadn’t ended ‘at least once’. The introduction of this fantasy by Wilde and Algernon’s willingness to go along with this fantasy heightens the idea of role reversal and strengthens Cecily as a character. In Act III when the opening scene closes, Jack and Algernon’s reconciliation with Cecily and Gwendolen mocks the typical codes of Victorian romance by staging the men’s willingness to be re-christened as the heroic

In this transaction of words between algernon and Jack they discuss the act of bunburying in shropshire. This act is composed of being someone in in one place, and a different person elsewhere. Jack in this case has a double life of being Ernest in the city and Jack in the country, this is where he houses an 18 year old ward who goes by the name of Cecily Cardew. Jack goes to and from his country home and his city townhouse and has adapted a love for a woman who believes his real name is Ernest and loves him especially for it.

Bunburing with Gwendolyn :- Jack expresses his feelings for Gwendolyn in the absence of Aunt Augusta. Gwendolyn replying to him says that understands the feelings of Jack and got to know about her love of her life when for the very first time Algernon told her about his friend Ernest (Jack). As Algernon introduced her to Jack as Ernest before. And continues that she always knew that she is destined to love a man named Ernest.

Finally, act III takes place in the drawing-room, where things will be sorted out. Cecily asks Algernon why he has tried to pass himself off as Jack's brother and he says he did it in order to have an excuse to visit her in the countryside. The same question is made to Jack: why did he create Ernest? He gives a blurry answer and she interprets that he created Ernest to be able to go over and visit her whenever he felt like it. They seem to be reassured but they are still worried about the name, so they reveal that they have made arrangements in order to be christened Ernest.

Throughout the story, Flowers for Algernon, Mr. Keyes writes this story from the perspective of Charlie Gordon, our main protagonist. I thought that Mr. Keyes creatively introduced the idea of flashbacks from Charlie’s childhood in his perspective. He used this technique so we could understand Rose’s aspiration for Charlie to be “normal”, giving Charlie his intense incentive to learn. Overall, Mr. Keyes used flashbacks to show how Charlie’s inferiority played in his relationships with other humans. Not only that, but Mr. Keyes also created a wide set of characters that would relate to Charlie in their own unique way to show how his superiority made them feel overwhelmingly insecure.

As Algernon begins his proposal he starts to realize that Cecily has made up a whole relationship between them as if they actually had something when they didn’t even knew each other. The most humor is in the statements that Cecily makes creating her whole relationship, the false love letters that Ernest wrote for her that she had to write herself shows how ideal she was. She even has this idea that engagement wasn’t a real on until it was broken off at least once, so that’s why she broke off her fake engagement and to add more she even says how she forgave him before the week was

Living a Double Life In The Importance of Being Earnest, the young protagonist, Jack Worthing leads a double life with his imaginary brother Ernest. The play begins in the manner of Algernon Moncrief, a friend of Jack, but has only known him as Ernest. As the play progresses, Lane, Algernon’s butler, addresses Jack’s sudden arrival. As Jack is allowed in, Algernon asks Lane to fetch Jack’s lost cigarette case which actually has the name Jack written on it, addressed from “Little Cicily”.

He portrays these woman as hilarious through their ridiculous ideals and what they believe to be important in a marriage. The first real instance of this can be seen in the first act, when Jack proposes to Gwendolen. After Jack’s confession, she states, “and my ideal had always been to love some one of the name of Ernest. There is something in the name that inspires absolute confidence. The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you.”

In reality he is this brother, Ernest is the mask he wears as a means of escape, Ernest can have all the fun that Jack as a pillar of society cannot. Algernon only knows Jack, as Ernest and is under the impression (for a time) that Jack's ward Cecily is his girlfriend. He believes that Jack is leading a double life under the name Jack, in reality Cecily is Jack's ward. He sees this as completely normal as he has created a fake invalid, name Bunbury, whom he pretends to visits whenever he wishes to escape society. This all comes to a head, when Alegernon falls in love with and wants to marry Cecily, and Jack wants to marry Algernon's cousin Gwendolyn. Indeed before Ceciliy even meets Alegernon, she has fabricated this entire love affair with him as well as an engagement, and when she meets him in Act II we see this

At the beginning of the first Act, Jack drops by unexpectedly to visit Algernon and informs him that he intends to propose to Gwendolyn. Algernon finds Jack’s cigarette case and demands to know why the inscription says, “Uncle Jack” and who Cecily is. Jack confesses that his real name is not Earnest and that Cecily is his ward. Jack also mentions that he wants to tell people his “brother” died because Cecily has become too interested in him. This catches the attention of Algernon who becomes interested in Cecily. Eventually, Gwendolyn accepts Jack’s proposal because she thinks his name is Earnest and Algernon visits Jack’s house in Hertfordshire pretending to be Jack’s brother, Earnest, just after Jack has told everyone that his brother died. Cecily falls in love with Algernon thinking his name is Earnest. The girls start talking and think they are engaged to the same man, and they confront Jack and Algernon. Jack admits there is no brother and neither of them are named Earnest. The girls are mad but the guys explain they only did it because they love them, and they both plan to be christened Earnest. Finally, Lady Bracknell, Gwendolyn’s mother arrives, and she gives consent for Algernon to marry Cecily, but as Cecily’s legal guardian, Jack refuses and says she does not come of age until she is thirty-five. As she and Gwendolyn are about to leave, Miss Prism, Cecily’s governess, arrives.

A name is used to show the importance of how wealthy a person is during this time period. “. . . name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not called Ernest” (Wilde 1521-1522). Jack uses the false name of “Ernest” as a fake brother so he can frolic in the city so he can maintain a classy lifestyle in the country as “Jack.”. Not only does Jack have an alternate identity to escape from his social obligations, he uses this name because the woman he loves has fallen for “Ernest” and not his true self. Gwendolen, the daughter of Lady Bracknell (Algernon’s Aunt), wants to marry “Ernest” because the name signifies wealth and charm. Jack’s friend, Algernon, is in the same predicament because Cecily (Jack's “niece”) falls in love with the name “Ernest” simply because she feels the name implies confidence. The status of a person was represented by their name during this period of time and so both Algernon and Jack knew that in order to maintain their elegant

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