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    This summary outlines the key events in the first two acts of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: 1) Jack confesses to Algernon that he uses the fake name "Earnest" in town and that Cecily is his ward, while Algernon shares that he uses his sick friend Bunbury as an excuse to leave the city. 2) Jack proposes to Gwendolen but Lady Bracknell rejects him until he can reveal where he comes from. 3) In the second act, Algernon pretends to be Jack's brother Earnest to visit Cecily, but complications arise when both Gwendolen and Cecily claim to be engaged to the

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    This summary outlines the key events in the first two acts of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: 1) Jack confesses to Algernon that he uses the fake name "Earnest" in town and that Cecily is his ward, while Algernon shares that he uses his sick friend Bunbury as an excuse to leave the city. 2) Jack proposes to Gwendolen but Lady Bracknell rejects him until he can reveal where he comes from. 3) In the second act, Algernon pretends to be Jack's brother Earnest to visit Cecily, but complications arise when both Gwendolen and Cecily claim to be engaged to the

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    This summary outlines the key events in the first two acts of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: 1) Jack confesses to Algernon that he uses the fake name "Earnest" in town and that Cecily is his ward, while Algernon shares that he uses his sick friend Bunbury as an excuse to leave the city. 2) Jack proposes to Gwendolen but Lady Bracknell rejects him until he can reveal where he comes from. 3) In the second act, Algernon pretends to be Jack's brother Earnest to visit Cecily, but complications arise when both Gwendolen and Cecily claim to be engaged to the

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    This summary outlines the key events in the first two acts of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: 1) Jack confesses to Algernon that he uses the fake name "Earnest" in town and that Cecily is his ward, while Algernon shares that he uses his sick friend Bunbury as an excuse to leave the city. 2) Jack proposes to Gwendolen but Lady Bracknell rejects him until he can reveal where he comes from. 3) In the second act, Algernon pretends to be Jack's brother Earnest to visit Cecily, but complications arise when both Gwendolen and Cecily claim to be engaged to the

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    FIRST ACT

    This story begins in the bachelors flat of Algernon, where him and Lane
    (his servant) discuss about the marriages. Algernon thinks that the
    marriages are boring, and Lane thinks that the marriages are enjoyable.
    Lane talks with Algernon about a marriage that he had, but Moncrieff
    wasn’t interested about Lane’s life, so he stopped the conversation.

    A little bit later, Earnest arrives to the flat and he goes in. Then they
    started to talk. When they were talking, Earnest said to Algernon that he
    loved Gwendolen (Algernon’s sister) and he was going to ask her to marry
    him. Algernon didn’t like the idea of his friend marrying his sister because
    he saw a dedication on his cigarette case of a girl called Cecily and said
    that he wasn’t accepting the marriage unless Earnest talks about that girl.

    Earnest confessed to Algernon that he was named Earnest in the city and
    Jack in the town, and Cecily is his ward. He says that in the town he has a
    brother in the city called Earnest using this as an excuse to go to the city
    regularly. Then, Algernon confessed to Earnest that he has a friend called
    Bunbury in the town that was ill and that he used this as a pretext to go to
    the town regularly.

    Then, Lane interrupts the conversation to say that Lady Bracknell and Lady
    Gwendolen arrived to the flat. Then, lady Bracknell and Algernon started
    to talk about that night dinner and Algernon said that he wasn’t going
    because he had to visit his friend Bunbury in the town because he was ill
    again.

    In that moment, Earnest took the opportunity to ask Gwendolen to marry


    him. She accepted because she was in love of the name ‘’Earnest’’ .

    Lady Bracknell didn’t accept this unless Earnest answered some questions.
    Lady Bracknell was making the questions to Earnest and he was answering
    well, until she asked where Jack was from. Earnest said that he didn’t
    know and Lady Bracknell didn’t accept the marriage.

    SECOND ACT

    This act happens in Manor’s house garden. She was with Cecily and her
    governess called Prims. They were talking about Jack and his crazy brother
    called Earnest, when they saw Chasuble entering to the garden.

    He was there because he was interested in talking with Prims, but she was
    having a headache and her and the doctor went for a walk.

    Then, Marruman appeared, with a card in a tray and saying that Earnest
    arrived. Then, Cecily said to Marruman that Earnest could pass. Algernon,
    pretending to be Jack’s brother, entered to meet Cecily.

    Then, after the walk, the doctor and Prims arrived to the house with
    Worthing.

    Neverthless, that situation was weird, because Cecily noticed that his
    brother was there and was trying to stay there a week.

    This caused the anger of Jack, since his friend had tried to pretend to be
    his brother to enter his house, ruining his plans and to make it worse, he
    had committed to Cecily.

    But, unfortunately for Jack and Algernon, Miss Gwendolen appeared at


    the house, causing a conflict between her and Cardew, due to her claiming
    that she was engaged to Earnest just like Cecily.

    This situation led to another problem and the resolution of the truth of
    Algernon and Jack's lie, even so. This made the indignation of the two
    young ladies.

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