PosterĄG Justin Hu at 12:15:58 12/18/97 from proxy.secc.fju.edu.tw
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| I read this play and found out that it actually
doesn't have any plot. It makes me feel as if it is a sentimental play or romantic. Because there is a scene where Jack is telling Algy how great his love is towards Gwendolin, at the same scene we see that Jack is proposing to Gwendolin. And when Jack is proposing, we see that Gwendolin also loves Jack. The characters in this play are very dramatic, there are all kinds of feelings. There is a charmful girl, there is a cold heart lady, etc. The main character, Jack Worthing is a man with two identity, his name in the country is Ernest but in Town his name is Jack. The reason of this is because it makes him easier to have an excuse to come to town. Jack makes people belive that Ernest is his brother. He is a very sentimental and straight person. He is able to express his feeling with no doubt and also he has no morality of being a gentleman. In act one we see how Jack tells Algy about Lady B. the way he tells him. Another important character is Algernon, his friend and relatives call him Algy. This person is rich but he is not quite a gentleman because he loves to be in troubles. He is always making fun of his friend Jack. He tries to make his Aunt lady B. believe that he has an invalid friend whose name is Bunbury, but actually he actually he is making fun of his friend Jack because he feels that Jack is a bunbury person. Algy's appereance seems to be fat because at the beginning of the play we see Algy eating a cucumber sandwich, there was a plate of it but at when Algy's aunt came, he has already eaten all of the sandwiches placed on the plate. Lady Bracknell (Lady B.)is the woman who is arrogant and also don't like to have relation with people of a lower race than her. She has a daughter but she never listens to her. Bracknell thinks that her child isn't able to make up decision specially for her own marriage. I think this lady must look like a witch. A lady with long messy gray hair, a big cone-hat, with old fashined glasses and a hooky nose. But her custome must be very elegant because she is a wealthy woman. Gwendolyn Fairfax is the daughter of Lady B. She is a beautiful woman who is in love with Jack, she is worry because her mother made her feel that she must refuse Jack. The less important character is Lane, he is the servant, in the play he is only calling up the names of the peoples who are going to come up to the stage. He might be a little bit fat because Algy always let him use some of his suits. Algy treats him very well. From what I have read, i think this play is very confuse because the talking is in a modern way and not in a formal way. There is some scenes that seems to be funny but the rest is very difficult to understand. If I had to write a brief summary of the play, I will say that the first act of the play is only talking about the the background of the character and the main idea of the play which is how is Jack going to gain the appreciation of Lady Bracknell. |