2021
DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v3i2.594
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Authenticity vs. Inauthenticity in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

Abstract: Unlike other living creatures, human being requires an authentic life to reflect the true self and independence. Due to the limitations and complicacies of life, either personal or from the surroundings, people sometimes play inauthentic roles and express inconsistent statements. Wilde’s play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ represents the same situation where two protagonists Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncireff frequently change their valid identity and address for abundant freedom and worldly pleasure. Con… Show more

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