“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness“

Dear diary,

This is the most absurd, trivial comedy I have read. It had me laughing at the characters’ absurdity and farce. It satirizes Victorian society in the most witty way.

Two women fall in love with ‘Ernest’, but Ernest doesn’t really exist? It’s all about secret identities, alter egos, and invented romances. Jack Worthing leads a double life—Ernest in the town and Jack in the country. Things get amusing when his friend Algernon Moncrieff also impersonates Ernest in pursuit of winning over his woman—because it seems like all women are obsessed with the name Ernest.

This play is a social commentary that, underneath all the trivial matters, explores issues of identity, societal norms and pressures, gender roles, the pursuit of marriage, and hypocrisy.

It uses witty dialogue and absurd situations to highlight the hypocrisy and triviality of the upper class.

I love how the ending connects all loose ends and the characters get what they each desire. Its timeless humor also leaves the readers reflective and amused.

So, how important is being Ernest really?

read-o-meter rating: 4.5/5

Age rating: 14+

Until next time… dear reader of my book diary:)