The Importance of Being Earnest Movie Blog

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As we come to watch this film, we find the true meaning of being earnest, which can be defined as being honest and with such sincerity. It means to tell the truth because it comes from deep within you to want to be honest to others and reveal to them who you truly are with such deep conviction. As the film comes to an ending, Jack has truly learned the importance of being earnest because he realized the consequences that come from lying so much, and how the lies you tell eventually catch up with you. Jack Worthing’s relationship to reality is the truth to the way he was abandoned as a baby, and left in a handbag in a train station in London, he grew up without his biological father or mother, never knowing where he came from or even his birth given name. Throughout the play, he copes with it by pretending to be his fake brother “Ernest” when he’s in London but back in his country estate, he pretends to have a brother; I believe he uses this method to cope because it helps him believe the family he never had exists. Algernon Moncrieff’s relationship to reality is that he lives in debt and longs to find true love and have a life long partner, and his way of coping was to pretend to be someone else in hopes that it would further his chances for Cecily to falling for him. As for Gwendolen Fairfax, her relationship to reality is that she always being told what to do and she really has no power on the decisions she longs to make. She copes with it by running away from the one person, who tries to control her, and even decides that a tattoo is a rebellious act and standing for a choice she wants. Cecily Cardew’s relationship to reality begins with her being viewed a respectable young lady who still does not have full control of her decisions because of her young age, and longs for a long, and her way of coping with the longing she has, she imagines and fantasizes about a knight and shining armor coming to her rescue and pursuing romantic love with her. The girl’s fascination with the name Ernest is because it inspires such true confidence, and makes it believable that they are a man of honesty. It has to deal with their idealistic romantic idealizations of expecting a marriage filled with great confidence in speaking openly of what they are hiding within. The gender roles in Earnest are reversed throughout the majority of the play they making it to where it’s quite comical how the word Earnest is being used so much because the ones who have the names, tend to be making a mockery of the word because they continue to lie, and continue being dishonest on their true identity, in order to get someone they desire. And towards the end, its reversed to Lady Bracknell being a liar for knowing about a child that had been abandoned in a handbag and knowing the whole time that it was son of her very own sister who had passed away. Ms. Prism and Dr. Chasuble turn out to be products of society because they are viewed as those that do no wrong and must continue their life without pursuing the thing they truly want in order to maintain their precipitance for others such as Cecily, who learns from Ms. Prism in how to be a pure young adult. In the end, Cecily disregards that Algernon’s name isn’t Ernest because he makes an apology by self-sacrifice of christening his name just for her love and forgiveness, and gives her the one thing she wanted most, was the truth and most honest secrets of himself, and that’s the meaning of Earnest she’d wanted all along.