Character Analysis – the Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon Moncrief)

Algernon Moncrief in Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being high-priced is kinda simply a child at play. Algy, as hes know to his friends, is a young bachelor not yet in his mid-thirties living the aristocratic life of a Victorian gentleman. He has an develop sense of morality and of the world beyond him. Algy has an excellent skill for humour and as an Oxonian, his education is besides rather noticeable. You might also surmise him to be unhappy if he were eating muffins as if at that place was no tomorrow, and he doesnt seem fond of sharing his cucumber sandwiches in any case.He expresses indifference to every matter that fails to give him a moments amusement as he refers to his manservants short marriage, I dont know that I am oft interested in your family life. Bills would likely pile in his direct in London on Half Moon Street, if he didnt dissipate them up. Responsibility isnt in his vocabulary, and he certainly doesnt place very oftentimes importance on beingness earn est. John ( motherfucker) Worthing is Algys stovepipe friend and is kind of serious somewhat everything that Algy takes for granted.Although they do share a mutual spirit for a particular past time called Bunburying that involves the creation of a assumed double in the form of a brother or friend. The floor of which to allow them to easily create excuses to travel as they like. Additionally Algy enjoys use his Bunbury character to avoid dinner with his aunt Lady Bracknell. He believes at a time a week is enough time to spend with relatives. sequence tar utilizes his Bunbury character, ironically reveald Earnest, to see Algys first cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax.In the first act of the play, Algy was inquisitive about an inscription in a cigarette case that whoreson had left behind. The inscription read From little Cecily, with her fondest chicane to her dear Uncle dump. Up to this moment, Algy had only known rapscallion only by the name Ernest, but now Algy disc everywhe res Jacks own Bunburying. Not seemingly fazed, as Algy seemed to a greater extent interested in the specifics of the one named Cecily, he continued to question Jack about the case only to discover that Cecily is not Jacks niece, but his ward. Enticed by the thought of this young female ward of Jacks, Algy presses him by expressing his interest.This results in Jack revealing that Cecily is excessively pretty and only eighteen. Quite unyielding now, but resolving that he was not going to be invited by Jack, he decided to overhear Jacks conversation with Gwendolen. Fortunately for Algy, Jack reveals his earth address to Gwendolen. Algy certainly had a scheme in his mind as he was writing down the address on his shirt cuff. Algy is quite a bored person. To avoid boring activities and to broaden his scope of entertainment, he created a fictitious character, Bunbury. As Bunbury, he can escape to the outlandish side or sound his aunts dinners.Algy also finds entertainment in being witt y and appreciating life as an art form. He doesnt avoid scrapes as he love scrapes. His scheme to see Cecily certainly turns into one, and many things revision for him once he does finally meet Cecily. I think it is best summed up by Algy saying I killed Bunbury this afternoon when he had just told Jack that Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury. After opposition Cecily and falling madly in love with her, hes willing to give up his freedom. Both he and Jack horizontal resort to computer programing baptisms to correct their lies, and in turn both mystify earnest.Algy always seemed quite amused with his own wit, even remarking on one occasion on his statement concerning women and their mothers, It is perfectly phrased . He believed women to become their mothers while men dont become their fathers. He also shows his keen understanding of human behavior when remarking about the music selection for his aunts dinner, if one plays good music, people dont listen, and if one plays gravid music people dont talk. Along with his wonderful taste in music, hes particularly fond of fashion.He would never save any appetence without a buttonhole first, and as much of a gourmand he is, thats saying a lot. He also comments of the fashion of others or rather the lack thereof such as Jack and how he has no taste in neckties at all. Another thing Algy knew, was that he loved Cecily and was willing to do anything to marry her. Algy may have fallen in love and forever lost his dear hamper friend, Bunbury, but his interest is fleeting. As well Cecily, for she even states she hates waiting even five minutes for anybody. I believe it likely for their love to flare brightly and quickly.A man that could fall in love with a woman in ten minutes and a woman that could love a man just for his name alone is not an perfect match. Although, their mutual whimsy could be that which makes them an ideal match. I would just want Algy does as his said and forgets how after the propos al the excitement is all over. Although, technically speaking, Algy never did propose to Cecily as they had been engaged nearly ternary months before they even met. It is widely believed that Algernon is a representation of Oscar Wilde himself, as both men are rather witty dandies that lead double lives.While it can be argued whether Algy had truly changed, Id like to think that he came to the acknowledgment that Bunbury could not live. Algy had finally bumped into someone in that castle in the sky and was sure to provide him with plenty of entertainment as Cecilys image seemed to constantly create stories out of thin air. When she told him of their imaginary break up before they even met, Algy was very much hurt indeed and undercoat Cecliys reacceptance of the engagement to make her a perfect angel.