Hidayatul N
09340003
Prose 1
University of Respati Yogyakarta
The Importance of being Earnest
Jack Worthing is the protagonist in the story of The Importance of being Earnest who lives in Hertfordshire where he is guardian to Cecily Cardew, she is granddaughter of the late Thomas Cardew who found and adopted Jack when he was a baby. Jack has responsibilities as the owner of the house and built the peace, with all the numbers of servants that depend on him. For years, he pretended to have responsibility to his brother named Earnest who always pursuit a pleasure and live in trouble. But, in fact Earnest is Jack’s alibi that allows him to go and disappear at a time and does everything as he likes and no one knows his disguise.
Jack is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, the cousin of his best friend, Algernon Moncrieff. When the play opens, Algernon, who knows Jack as Ernest, has begun to suspect something, having found an inscription inside Jack’s cigarette case addressed to “Uncle Jack” from someone who refers to herself as “little Cecily.” Algernon suspects that Jack may have a double life.
At the beginning of Act I, Jack tells Algernon and announces that he intends to propose to Gwendolen. Algernon confronts him with the cigarette case and forces him to make a confession, demanding to know who “Jack” and “Cecily” are. Jack confesses that his name is not really Ernest and that Cecily is his aunty. Jack also tells Algernon about his fictional brother named Earnest. Jack says he has been thinking of killing off his fake brother, since Cecily has been showing her interest in Earnest.
Gwendolen and her mother, Lady Bracknell, arrive which gives Jack an opportunity to propose to Gwendolen. Jack is delighted to discover that Gwendolen returns his affections, but he is reminded that Gwendolen is interested in the name Ernest, which she says “inspires absolute confidence.” Gwendolen makes clear that she would not consider marrying a man who was not named Ernest. Lady Bracknell interviews Jack to determine his qualification to marry her daughter, and during this interview she asks about his family background. When Jack explains that he has no idea who his parents were and that he was found, by the man who adopted him, in a handbag in the cloakroom at Victoria Station, Lady Bracknell is shock. She forbids the match between Jack and Gwendolen and asked Jack to go out of the house.
The next story, Algernon shows up at Jack’s country estate acts as Jack’s brother Ernest. Meanwhile, Jack has decided that Ernest has died already in Paris and arrives home in deep mourning. He is angry when he finds Algernon there acting as Ernest but he has nothing to say to pretend anymore, because if he does not agreed to Algernon, so his own lies and deceptions will be revealed by Algernon. While Jack changes out of his mourning clothes, Algernon has fallen in love with Cecily, asks her to marry him. He is surprised to know that Cecily already considers that they are engaged, and he is charmed when she says that her interest is with “Uncle Jack’s brother”. Algernon is less interested to learn that part of Cecily’s interest in him comes from the name Ernest, which the same as Gwendolen, she says “inspires absolute confidence.”
Algernon search to the local rector, Dr. Chasuble to christen himself as Ernest. Meanwhile, Gwendolen arrives and intends to give Jack an unexpected visit. Gwendolen is shown into the garden, where Cecily orders tea and tries to play hostess. Gwendolen thinks Cecily is a visitor and confuse that Cecily is “Mr. Worthing’s ward”. She thinks that Earnest has never mentioned that he has a ward. Cecily explains that Ernest Worthing is not her guardian but his brother Jack and she is engaged to be married to Ernest Worthing. Gwendolen thinks that this is impossible because she is also engaged to Ernest Worthing. Jack and Algernon arrive toward the climax of this confrontation, each made arrangements with Dr. Chasuble to be christened Ernest later that day. Each of the young ladies points out that the other has been deceived: Cecily informs Gwendolen that her fiancé is really named Jack and Gwendolen informs Cecily that hers is really called Algernon. The two women demand to know where Jack’s brother Ernest is, since both of them are engaged to be married to him. Jack is forced to confess that he has no brother and Ernest is a complete fiction. Both women are shocked and furious.
The next story in the Manor House, where Cecily and Gwendolen have retired, when Jack and Algernon enter from the garden, the two women confront them. Cecily asks Algernon why he pretended to be her guardian’s brother. Algernon tells that he did it in order to meet her. Gwendolen asks Jack whether he pretended to have a brother in order to come into London to see her as often as possible, and she understand that reason. The women are calm down then, but still concerned over the issue of the name. However, when Jack and Algernon tell Gwendolen and Cecily that they have both made arrangements to be christened Ernest that afternoon, all is forgiven and disappear. The two pairs of lovers embrace. Lady Bracknell has followed Gwendolen from London. She demands to know what is going on. Gwendolen informs Lady Bracknell of her engagement to Jack again, but Lady Bracknell retells again that their marriage is impossible. Algernon tells Lady Bracknell of his engagement to Cecily, promise her to inspect Cecily and check into her social connections, which she does in a routine and has manner like Jack. Jack tells that Cecily is actually worth a great deal of money. At this, Lady Bracknell becomes interested.
Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen are on the way home when Dr. Chasuble arrives and happens to mention Cecily’s governess, Miss Prism. At this, Lady Bracknell starts and asks that Miss Prism be sent for. When the governess arrives and catches sight of Lady Bracknell, she begins to look guilty. Lady Bracknell accuses her of having left her sister’s house twenty-eight years before with a baby and never returned. She demands to know where the baby is. Miss Prism confesses she doesn’t know, explaining that she lost the baby, having absentmindedly placed it in a handbag in which she had meant to place the manuscript for a novel she had written. Jack asks what happened to the bag, and Miss Prism says she left it in the cloakroom of a railway station. Jack presses her for further details, returning a few moments later with a large handbag. When Miss Prism confirms that the bag is hers, Jack throws himself on her with a cry of “Mother!” It takes a while before the situation is sorted out, but before too long we understand that Jack is not the illegitimate child of Miss Prism but the legitimate child of Lady Bracknell’s sister and, therefore, Algernon’s older brother. Furthermore, Jack had been originally christened “Ernest John.” All these years Jack has unwittingly been telling the truth: Ernest is his name, as is Jack, and he does have an unprincipled younger brother Algernon. Again the couples are embrace, Miss Prism and Dr. Chasuble follow suit, and Jack confess that he now understands “the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
09340003
Prose 1
University of Respati Yogyakarta
The Importance of being Earnest
Jack Worthing is the protagonist in the story of The Importance of being Earnest who lives in Hertfordshire where he is guardian to Cecily Cardew, she is granddaughter of the late Thomas Cardew who found and adopted Jack when he was a baby. Jack has responsibilities as the owner of the house and built the peace, with all the numbers of servants that depend on him. For years, he pretended to have responsibility to his brother named Earnest who always pursuit a pleasure and live in trouble. But, in fact Earnest is Jack’s alibi that allows him to go and disappear at a time and does everything as he likes and no one knows his disguise.
Jack is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, the cousin of his best friend, Algernon Moncrieff. When the play opens, Algernon, who knows Jack as Ernest, has begun to suspect something, having found an inscription inside Jack’s cigarette case addressed to “Uncle Jack” from someone who refers to herself as “little Cecily.” Algernon suspects that Jack may have a double life.
At the beginning of Act I, Jack tells Algernon and announces that he intends to propose to Gwendolen. Algernon confronts him with the cigarette case and forces him to make a confession, demanding to know who “Jack” and “Cecily” are. Jack confesses that his name is not really Ernest and that Cecily is his aunty. Jack also tells Algernon about his fictional brother named Earnest. Jack says he has been thinking of killing off his fake brother, since Cecily has been showing her interest in Earnest.
Gwendolen and her mother, Lady Bracknell, arrive which gives Jack an opportunity to propose to Gwendolen. Jack is delighted to discover that Gwendolen returns his affections, but he is reminded that Gwendolen is interested in the name Ernest, which she says “inspires absolute confidence.” Gwendolen makes clear that she would not consider marrying a man who was not named Ernest. Lady Bracknell interviews Jack to determine his qualification to marry her daughter, and during this interview she asks about his family background. When Jack explains that he has no idea who his parents were and that he was found, by the man who adopted him, in a handbag in the cloakroom at Victoria Station, Lady Bracknell is shock. She forbids the match between Jack and Gwendolen and asked Jack to go out of the house.
The next story, Algernon shows up at Jack’s country estate acts as Jack’s brother Ernest. Meanwhile, Jack has decided that Ernest has died already in Paris and arrives home in deep mourning. He is angry when he finds Algernon there acting as Ernest but he has nothing to say to pretend anymore, because if he does not agreed to Algernon, so his own lies and deceptions will be revealed by Algernon. While Jack changes out of his mourning clothes, Algernon has fallen in love with Cecily, asks her to marry him. He is surprised to know that Cecily already considers that they are engaged, and he is charmed when she says that her interest is with “Uncle Jack’s brother”. Algernon is less interested to learn that part of Cecily’s interest in him comes from the name Ernest, which the same as Gwendolen, she says “inspires absolute confidence.”
Algernon search to the local rector, Dr. Chasuble to christen himself as Ernest. Meanwhile, Gwendolen arrives and intends to give Jack an unexpected visit. Gwendolen is shown into the garden, where Cecily orders tea and tries to play hostess. Gwendolen thinks Cecily is a visitor and confuse that Cecily is “Mr. Worthing’s ward”. She thinks that Earnest has never mentioned that he has a ward. Cecily explains that Ernest Worthing is not her guardian but his brother Jack and she is engaged to be married to Ernest Worthing. Gwendolen thinks that this is impossible because she is also engaged to Ernest Worthing. Jack and Algernon arrive toward the climax of this confrontation, each made arrangements with Dr. Chasuble to be christened Ernest later that day. Each of the young ladies points out that the other has been deceived: Cecily informs Gwendolen that her fiancé is really named Jack and Gwendolen informs Cecily that hers is really called Algernon. The two women demand to know where Jack’s brother Ernest is, since both of them are engaged to be married to him. Jack is forced to confess that he has no brother and Ernest is a complete fiction. Both women are shocked and furious.
Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen are on the way home when Dr. Chasuble arrives and happens to mention Cecily’s governess, Miss Prism. At this, Lady Bracknell starts and asks that Miss Prism be sent for. When the governess arrives and catches sight of Lady Bracknell, she begins to look guilty. Lady Bracknell accuses her of having left her sister’s house twenty-eight years before with a baby and never returned. She demands to know where the baby is. Miss Prism confesses she doesn’t know, explaining that she lost the baby, having absentmindedly placed it in a handbag in which she had meant to place the manuscript for a novel she had written. Jack asks what happened to the bag, and Miss Prism says she left it in the cloakroom of a railway station. Jack presses her for further details, returning a few moments later with a large handbag. When Miss Prism confirms that the bag is hers, Jack throws himself on her with a cry of “Mother!” It takes a while before the situation is sorted out, but before too long we understand that Jack is not the illegitimate child of Miss Prism but the legitimate child of Lady Bracknell’s sister and, therefore, Algernon’s older brother. Furthermore, Jack had been originally christened “Ernest John.” All these years Jack has unwittingly been telling the truth: Ernest is his name, as is Jack, and he does have an unprincipled younger brother Algernon. Again the couples are embrace, Miss Prism and Dr. Chasuble follow suit, and Jack confess that he now understands “the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
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