In Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is a melodramatic play from the early Victorian era. This piece is very honest and candid. It is a satire, a comedy of errors and an intellectual farce. There are two main characters, Algernon and Jack. Jack Worthing is known to Jack when he lives on his own country estate, but when he goes to town, to London; he creates a fictional character called "Earnest". Algernon created a fictional character named "Bunbury". Algernon uses Bunbury to get him out of his previous commitments. It helps him get out of the house and clear his head whenever he wants. Although the situation of the two characters is different, both have created an "alter ego" to help them get away from their own lives and also live another life. They are best friends; both have the same social origin, the same social class and the same tastes. Between Jack and Algernon, Jack is more serious about his life; he creates a fictional character to help him keep his humble and respectable image intact but in truth it is in vain. On the other hand, Algernon is honest about himself and goes against Victorian values. But society loves him anyway because he accepts that he is neither formal nor conservative nor proper and is rough around the edges, but he is funny, witty and intelligent. Although Wilde creates two characters in Jack and Algernon who are similar in terms of social class, age, tastes, etc., he also carefully creates subtle character differences between them that create conflict and humor in the room. Algernon falls in love with Cecily, Jack's niece. and Jack is in love with Gwendolen, Algernon's cousin. Algernon and Jack on the surface seem to be very similar, they have some of the same ideologies, love for their romantic partners and the same reaction middle of paper...... her. Jack and Algernon seem similar and some cases are, but there are some differences that make the play humorous and climatic. Jack, even though he portrays him, comes off as immoral and hypocritical and Algernon comes off as immoral and honest. One of the moral paradoxes that "The Importance of Being Earnest" seems to express is the idea that the perfectly moral man is the man who claims to be immoral, who speaks the truth because he admits to being essentially a liar. Both Jack and Algernon want to be "Ernest", but in truth, it's a play on words. Women like this name because they think men are serious! The main conflict in the play is hypocrisy, and the whole idea that Jack and Algernon go against the normal conventions of being hypocritical. Algernon's ideologies on marriage, food, women, and love bring humor to the play..