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- When Algernon asks if she could love a man with his own name, she immediately declares her dislike for it.
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Algernon Moncrieff is a member of the wealthy class, living a life of total bachelorhood in a fashionable part of London. He is younger than Jack, takes less responsibility, and is always frivolous and irreverent.
You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love some one whose name was Ernest. [ Algernon rises, Cecily also.] There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence.
Algernon tries to steer Cecily away from her obsession with the name Ernest. He has become trapped in the web of his own lie, because she believes Ernest to be his real name. Algernon’s joke about his name shows his confidence that he can overcome that objection.
Algernon. Yes. But why does your aunt call you her uncle? 'From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.' There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can't quite make out. Besides, your name isn't Jack at all; it is ...
After Jack goes into the house, Algernon announces he is in love with Cecily. Algernon proclaims his undying affection while Cecily copies his words in her diary. Algernon asks Cecily to marry him, and she agrees.
Algernon leads Lady Bracknell out of the parlor, allowing Jack and Gwendolen a moment alone. Jack declares his love for Gwendolen and she expresses her affection for him, announcing that it is her “ideal” to love someone named “ Ernest ” because the name inspires “absolute confidence.”.
