Nama: Apricelia Amanda Putri

NIM: 1202620047

Kelas: 20 DB

Summary: The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest is an Oscar Wilde comedic drama about two young
and wealthy men, Algernon "Algy" Moncrieff and Jack "Ernest" Worthing, who invent a lie.
It all starts when Ernest goes to Algy's house to ask for permission to marry Algy's cousin,
Gwendolen. But then Algy asks why Jack had a cigarette box with the inscription "From little
Cecily with her fondest love." Jack says that his real identity is Jack Worthing and that Cecily
is his ward, a responsibility he inherited from his adoptive father, Thomas Cardew, through
his will. When Algy goes to the city for a night out, he goes by the name "Ernest."

Gwendolen and her mother, Lady Bracknell, arrive to Algy’s house. Jack tries to
propose to Gwendolen. Lady Bracknell conducts an interview with Jack in order to establish
his suitability to be her son-in-law. When he says he has no idea who his parents are and that
he was discovered in a handbag in the cloakroom at Victoria Station by the man who adopted
him, Lady Bracknell becomes quite upset.

Miss Prism, Cecily Cardew's governess, is instructing Cecily in the garden of Jack
Worthing's rural house. Algernon, disguised as Jack's brother Ernest, arrives at Jack's country
mansion. Meanwhile, Jack returns home in heavy sadness, full of a narrative about Ernest
dying abruptly in Paris, having determined that Ernest had outlived his usefulness. He is
furious to find Algernon there, posing as Ernest, but he has no choice but to go along with the
ruse. If he doesn't, his own deceptions and lies will be exposed. Algernon is in love with
Cecily and plans to stay there. When Jack goes out, Algernon proposes to Cecily, who gets
out a diary and letters that she has already written, explaining that she had already imagined
their engagement.

Chaos reigns with the appearance of Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen. Miss Prism is
revealed to be the absent-minded nurse who, twenty years earlier, misplaced Lady Bracknell's
brother's infant in Victoria Station. As a result, John, whose name is Ernest, is Algernon's
older brother, and the play concludes with the two couples sharing a joyful embrace.
 In my point of view, this drama has very mind-blowing plot twist. And I like the way
the writer put the topic about class-based and surface-obsessed society from the old city of
London.