Women In The Play 'The Importance Of Being Earnest'

The play, The Importance of Being Earnest, was set in the late 1800’s when a woman needed a man to make her someone. This play portrays two young men pretending to be someone they’re not to win the affection of Gwendolen and Cecily, two women they have just recently met. Gwendolen and Cecily, blind for love, ignored all the “red flags” a woman born in the 21st-century couldn’t forget or forgive. Gwendolen and Cecily were lied to and made to look like a fool because of the men they fell in love with, Jack and Algy. Jack and Algy told Gwendolen and Cecily their names were Earnest and led these women to believe they lived a crazy lavish lifestyle of spending relative’s money and jetting across the country. These women took the news fairly well after finding out their fiancés names weren’t real and every story told was a lie, but even after the deceitful lies they still agreed to marry them, and had the support of family members and friends for this marriage. Women in the 21st -century don’t particularly care to be lied to. Pretending to be someone you’re not in this day and age is called “cat fishing”, and is quite the scandal. Most women wouldn’t agree to marry a man if he faked his way into her life. If Gwendolen and Cecily

Gwendolen and Cecily may have been pressured to find a man and get married by their guardians, the type of pressure we no longer see in the 21st -century. Women are less pressured in today’s time to find a man because woman do have more freedoms and rights and don’t need a man to represent them. Also, people in the 21st -century are living a lot longer than those who lived in the 1800’s and are therefore are not pressed for time to get married and have children before they turn forty and die. Even though Gwendolen and Cecily may have been pressed for time or pressured by their families it’s still not an excuse to forget your standards and marry a man who has lied to