This is the presentation-1 of sem-1. I present on character of Jack Worthing From The Importance of being Earnest.

1. Character of Jack Worthing
-Oscar Wilde

2. Introduction
Name: Nirali Dabhi
Roll number: 17
Enrollment Number: 4069206420220006
Sem: 1 M.A
Paper number: 104
Paper Name: Literature of Victorian
Topic: Character of Jack Worthing
Submitted to: Smt S.B. Gardi, Department of English, M.K.B.U
Email: niralidabhi95@gmail.com

3. 1. Information of the Author
2. Brief Introduction of Play
3. Characters
4. Jack Worthing
5. Double Lives
6. Comparison with Movie
7. Namkaran in Our Society
8. Conclusion
Table of Points

4. Oscar Wilde(1856-1900)
● Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
● Irish poet and writer.
● Victorian age the late nineteenth century.
● In his writings he criticized the Victorian
society for its negative features, like
hypocrisy,narrow-mindedness, double-
standards, sexual repression, and class-
consciousness.
● Wilde criticized the Victorians in his
masterpiece The Importance of Being
Earnest, especially its social aristocratic
life, the social class system, the attitudes of
marriage, and the duality of human nature.
(Hussein)

5. ● Jacques Maritain, the French Catholic philosopher and
political thinker, has well said, "To put in his life, not
in his work, his genius as an artist, nothing could be
more absurd than this design of Wilde; it is to carry
over into a flute the art of the cithara, into a bird the
law of the snow. His life was only a useless
phrase"(Hussein)

6. • Three acts. First act place in london other two Jack’s Country
house.
• Oscar Wilde was a great master of words and phrases in his
masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest:Trivial Comedy
for Serious People.
• The genre of this play is a mixture of satire,comedy of
manners, social criticism, intellectual farce, and melodrama.
• Holman and Harmon define comedy of manners as a type of
comedy which deals with "the manners and conventions of
an artificial, highly sophisticated society"
(Hussein)
Importance of Being Earnest

7. Character of the Play
• Jack Worthing
• Algernon Moncrieff
• Gwendolen Fairfax
• Cecily Cardew
• Lady Augusta Bracknell
• Miss Prism

8. Jack Worthing
• Jack Worthing is found in a handbag in the cloakroom of a railway
station in London by Mr.Thomas Cardew. He becomes a responsible
and respected man. After the death of Mr. Cardew, Jac becomes the
guardian of Cecily, the granddaughter of Mr. Cardew. He pretends
for years that he has a younger irresponsible brother named
Earnest.
• when Lady Bracknell sees Miss Prism, she recognizes her
immediately. After questioning her about that baby that she too
years ago, Miss Prism confesses that she left the poor baby in a
handbag in cloakroom in London station. Jack realizes that Lady
Bracknell is his aunt and Algernon is his biological brother.

9. Double Lives
● Jack Worthing and the lighthearted Algernon
Moncrieff, the attractive name of "Ernest" for
Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew.
● The whole play is drawn around the double meaning of
‘earnest’ as an adjective and as a name, describing
man's honesty and seriousness.
● While Jack's imaginary brother Ernest is a facet of
himself that he wants to hide from Cecily, his young
ward.
● The Victorian man who leads double lives seems
respectable in his house with the happy marriage, but
he lives another life of promiscuity and depravity that
his wife is completely unaware of.

10. Compare the Character with
Movie
• Govinda in Sandwich is Sher SIngh and Vicky
Chopra
• Mahima Chaudhry in Sandwich is Sweety
Singh
• Raveena Tandon in Sandwich is Nisha Singh
• In This Movie Govinda Lives Double Life Like
Jack.
• He also hide his real identity .

11. Namkaran In our Society

12. Character of Jack in Movie Adaptation
• This Movie is Based on The real Play.
• In this movie Jack’s Role was played
by Michael Redgrave.(Asquith)

13. Conclusion
• The Importance of Being Earnest is a good motive to
seek earnestness in oneself.
• Jack unintentionally uses the name Ernest for his
imaginary brother. As a matter of fact, the whole
play is built upon the meaning of being earnest.
• For Jack, he pretends all the time to be not what he
is and at the end he discovers that he is what he is
not.

14. Work Cited
• Asquith, Anthony, director. The Importance of Being Earnest. Javelin
Films, 1952. Accessed 18 October 2022.
• Bazmee, Anees, director. Sandwich. T-Series, 2006. Accessed 18
October 2022.
• Hussein, Marwa Sami. “The Duality of Human Nature in Oscar Wilde's
The Importance of Being Earnest.” 2012,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331481329. Accessed 17
October 2022.