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Cecily Cardew. If Gwendolen is a product of London high society, Cecily is its antithesis. She is a child of nature, as ingenuous and unspoiled as a pink rose, to which Algernon compares her in Act 2. However, her ingenuity is belied by her fascination with wickedness.
- The Importance of Being Earnest: Cecily Cardew Quotes
Cecily addresses Algernon, who masquerades as Ernest...
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- The Importance of Being Earnest: Cecily Cardew Quotes
Jan 30, 2019 · Similar to Gwendolen, Miss Cecily has a “girlish dream” of marrying a man named Ernest. So, when Algernon poses as Ernest, Jack’s fictional brother, Cecily happily records his words of adoration in her diary. She confesses that she has imagined that they are engaged, years before they even met.
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Cecily and Gwendolen have retreated to the drawing room of the Manor House to get away from Algernon and Jack. They are eager to forgive the men and be reconciled. When Algernon and Jack enter from the garden, Cecily and Gwendolen confront them about their motives.
A flight of grey stone steps leads up to the house. The garden, an old-fashioned one, full of roses. Time of year, July. Basket chairs, and a table covered with books, are set under a large yew-tree. [Miss Prism[1] discovered seated at the table. Cecily is at the back watering flowers.]
Cecily is goaded by Gwendolen's snobbery as she notes that sugar is not fashionable, and that the best houses never serve cake; these are indirect but very pointed attacks on Cecily's own home. Cecily retaliates by making Gwendolen physically uncomfortable.
Gwendolen escapes from her dominating mother, Lady Bracknell; Cecily outwits Jack by arranging for Algernon to stay, and she also manages to escape Miss Prism to carry on a tryst with her future fiancé. The first moment Cecily meets Algernon, she firmly explains her identity with a no-nonsense reaction to his patronizing comment.
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Cecily proves herself as capable as Jack and Algernon at creating fictions when she discusses her made-up relationship with Ernest, and in many ways she resembles Gwendolen when she discusses her relationship and love in general.
