Dishonesty in The Importance of Being Earnest

            In the play by The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde there are all of dishonest people and humor. There is a lot of dishonesty towards marriage and what marriage really means. In the book Lady Bracknell pretty much says that there is no such thing as true love. And that one much cheat to have a good relationship. Lady Bracknell really only care about her social standings in her community and London and she will do almost anything to get what she wants, even if that means to lie to get what she wants. The references to earnest and Ernest is basically all about dishonesty because when people say something about Ernest who is really Jack or Algernon, is all false. The people that make those statements are talking about someone that really isn't who they think they are. Most of the humor in the play is based off lies that someone told.

           To me Oscar Wilde is trying to express people from the Victorian era in his play. All the people that lied and cheated to get what they wanted or thought they need. I don't think that Wilde had any one specific in mind while writing the play but knew that there were people out there like those characters. Wilde represented many different types of people in the way they live. There are country people, city people, fashionable people, smart people and not so smart people. Wilde had a wide range of characters in this play that he wrote.