The Importance Of Being Earnest by Hallye Green

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The Importance Of Being Earnest

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Our choices in life are defined by our

Two young men have blended the truth as to who they are in order to add some excitement into their lives.
John Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his town and visit a young lady named Gwendolyn
Algernon Moncrieff takes the name Earnest when visiting Worthing’s young ward, Cecile, whom is known to be very beautiful.
Things start to wrong when the two men end up in the same town and their lies are discovered

Teenage Cady Heron was homeschooled her whole life in Africa by her parents.
When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick lesson on the cruel laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques.
She unintentionally finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed "the Plastics," but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.

Both the play and the movie focus on social class
In both works the characters create a separate personality for when they are around people they feel they need to impress.
The characters struggle with feeling the need to have a certian social status to be accepted
Trying to be someone they are not causes the characters trouble, but once they begin acting as their true self everything ends up working itself out.
In the background picture Candy, Gretchen, Regina, and Karen are on a call where everyone is talking bad about the other

The play and the movie contrast in the sense that Candy changes herself to fit into the societal norm, while John and Algernon change their identity in order to have a mental break.
They also contrast in the sense that Candy can not date Aaron because he was Regina’s ex, while John can not marry Gwendolyn because he is not part of the higher class in society.
The image from the acted out play, shows a moment where both Cecily and Gwendolyn are talking after they have found out both the men they love have lied to them.