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The Importance of Being Ernest 1 CHARACTERS - Coggle Diagram
The Importance of Being Ernest 1 CHARACTERS
Jack
He has two names/two lives (countryside/city
He's quite shy and reserved
He's absent-minded
he's a liar/he's invented a brother supposedly called Ernest
He's busy and has got responsabilities
He's got a ward, Cecily
He's awkward, especially with Gwendolen
He's in love with Gwendolen and wants to propose
He's upper-class
less clever and witty than Algernon
Doesn't have a romanting demeanour/attitude, he's practical
Algernon
He's a real dandy
He uses a lot of sarcasm, he's witty
He has two lives (too): he has invented an invalid friend called Bunbury to go to the countryside
He's determined/stubborn
He's chlidish/immature/he's selfish
He's not preoccupied about ethics
He's upper-class/he's an aristocrat
He's charismatic and likes attracting women
He loves eating cucumber sandwiches (he's an hedonist in general)
He's a musician/love playing the piano
He's got debts/he's profligate (dépensier)
He's curious/inquisitive
He's probably Jack's best friend
Gwendolen
She's Lady Bracknell's daughter, so Algernon's cousin.
She's excessive and naive
She loves and wants to marry him
She has intuition
She's too flirtatious for an upper-class woman in Victorian times
She's bold
She's wealthy too, and disagrees with her Mum about marriage
She's prim
She enjoys the name of Ernest, she's superficial
She's rebellious and modern
Cecily
She's Jack's ward
Her guardian is Miss Prism
She lives in the countryside
She's quite dreamy, trying to escape from her lessons/and her life
Algernon would like to know her
She's playful
she's lonely because she invents herself a life with Ernest
Lady Bracknell
She's Gwendolen's mother
She's rude and bossy
She doesn't want Jack for her daughter because he's not "eligible"
She's Algernon's Aunt
She's a caricature of the Victorian era and values
She's very srict/she's a stickler for conventions
Just like Algy, she enjoys cucumber sandwiches
She's really wealthy and she's upper-class
Other characters
Lane is Algy's servant, he's an accomplice in Algy's lies
There's miss Prism, Cecily's governess