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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Coggle Diagram
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Jack/Ernest
The protagonist of the play. Jack Worthing is a seemingly responsible and respected young man who leads a double life.
Cecily Cardew
Jack’s ward, the granddaughter of the old gentlemen who found and adopted Jack when Jack was a baby.
Lady Bracknell
Algernon’s snobbish, mercenary, and domineering aunt and Gwendolen’s mother. Lady Bracknell married well, and her primary goal in life is to see her daughter do the same.
Gwendolen Fairfax
Algernon’s cousin and Lady Bracknell’s daughter. Gwendolen is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Ernest.
Miss Prism
Cecily’s governess. Miss Prism is an endless source of pedantic bromides and clichés. She highly approves of Jack’s presumed respectability and harshly criticizes his “unfortunate” brother. Puritan though she is,
Algernon Moncrieff
The play’s secondary hero. Algernon is a charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest
Lane
Algernon’s manservant. When the play opens, Lane is the only person who knows about Algernon’s practice of “Bunburying.”
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.
The rector on Jack’s estate. Both Jack and Algernon approach Dr. Chasuble to request that they be christened “Ernest.”
