The Importance of being Earnest

Question 1

Leading a double life

Answer 1

‘A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has had a very tedious time of it.’

Question 2

The truth’s horror

Answer 2

‘it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth’ ‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!’

Question 3

Education

Answer 3

‘education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes’

Question 4

Cecily and hypocrisy

Answer 4

‘I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy’

Question 5

Expectation of women

Answer 5

‘The moment Algernon mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you’

Question 6

Existential

Answer 6

‘You never talk anything but nonsense./ Nobody ever does.’