The Importance of Being Earnest Act I, Part Two Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes
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of Gwendolen, a young woman obsessed with the name Ernest, and not with actual earnestness itself, Wilde satirizes Victorian society’s with surface manifestations of virtue and its willingness to detect virtue in the most superficial displays of decent . The Ernest/earnest joke is a send-up of the whole of moral duty, which was the linchpin of Victorian morality.
n pronouncements such as these, Lady Bracknell reveals an unsettling notion that colored every of Victorian life: and misfortune are, to some extent, an outcome of moral unworthiness.
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