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Double Life In The Importance Of Being Ernest

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In the Victorian Era, there were repressive and suffocating norms. Many people were cultivating a double life to be able to escape from their restrictive obligations in a respectful way. In The Importance of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde creates scenes where the characters, Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing, live secret lives to make a false impression about who they really are. Both characters are unsatisfied with their social lives by participating in boring dinners and living a typical Victorian family life, which leads them to create a double life that helps them escape from their social class. In Act 1, Algernon tells Jack, “You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town

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