The Importance Of Being Ernest Literary Analysis

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The graphic memoir, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel explains her childhood and young life in chronological order. Bechdel also focuses on her father’s life and how his choices effect her. Readers find out that her father is living this mystery life as a gay man while still married to Bechdel’s mother. Her father has many secrets and they only get revealed until after his passing. Bechdel too has been living a mystery life in college she is a lesbian and kept that a secret from her family for some time. In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde the characters Jack and Algernon lived a mystery life that no one new about. Throughout the play their secrets start to unfold and begin to create chaos between the characters. Fun Home and The Importance of Being Earnest express the topic of secrecy and living a double life within their texts. The beginning of Fun Home readers could see how the father was not a very happy or humorous. At a young age Alison and her father did not have a very close relationship which is …show more content…
Both Jack and Algernon fall in love and want to marry in the play, but the women do not know who they really are. Jack pretends to be Earnest toward Gwendolen and Algernon pretends to be Bunbury and Earnest toward Cecily. Algernon finds pretending to be someone else enjoyable and fun while Jack feels like he has or needs to. Algernon invented Bunbury so he could escape from his home town and have fun without the responsibilities of Algernon. He states toward Jack, “I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable (Wilde 11). Algernon had fun with his secret life while Jack had to become someone because he felt like he had to be a different person to get Gwendolen’s
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