1. The Follies of the English Victorian Era
Later on in Act two something similar happens to Algernon and Jack's ward Cecily, where Algernon pretends to be Ernest Worthing, Jack's alter ego in the town and his "greedy wicked brother who live in town" when he is in the country. The plays and mostly revolves around this theme of deception to oneself and to others. ... Jack announces that he has come to town to ask Gwendolen to marry him; Algernon responds: "I thought you had come up for pleasure? ... The conventional parental conflict over love maintains our interest in the love story, but the secondary conflict is far more or...
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