"Importance Of Being Earnest" was written by Oscar Wilde, in this novel he talks about how people from Victorian age behaved and what custom they carried. In this play things that confuses me and interests me is the conversation between Algernon and Jack. How they are friends visiting each other, yet not showing their true self to each other. for example: Jack was hiding who "Cecily" is, when Algernon asked about her name after seeing it on Jack's cigarette case. After, investigating about it Jack explained him about his fake name "Earnest" and how he is interested in Alergnon's cousin "Gwendolen"and who actually the "cecily" is.
One of the scenes where Lady Bracknell investigate Jack, after she saw him proposing her daughter Gwendolen, she asks questions like where he lives? what he do for living? how much money he makes....and so on. For me it is interesting Because, nowadays when two people wants to get marry they don't have to go through these process of "approval from families". How it was important in old days and how children use to listen to their parents is pretty interesting. I agree with it that its not the case in every family or every culture, but majority of us do what we want to do with our lives, or with whom we want to spend it, its not important with whom our families will be agreeing with.
There's a long conversation between Jack and Algernon about their cigarette case and concept of marriage. In this conversation I feel that they are in a power struggle to win the argument, just for the sake of ego to prove that, one of them is rite and experienced and other one is wrong. From my point of view winning arguments, and ego shouldn't be important than our friends or relationship. It weakens the relationships. Everybody does have different prospective of living their lives, and we all will have different experiences; but it doesn't mean we have to let our friends or family down just because we-know-it-all.
