The play pursues wealthy and bored protagonists, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, as they court two women, Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, pretending to be men named Ernest. Despite being published in 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest was an easy read because the play is easily humourous. The words and phrases are not used modernly and therefore, what is written is difficult to understand in the absence of translations or SparkNotes. In many of the English classes I have enrolled in, there are numerous books or plays - especially Shakespeare - that I have read which might be interesting but the diction is archaic. This year in AP Literature, The Importance of Being Earnest was assigned and was not amongst those writing pieces. Over the years, I have been assigned to read a multitude of books and plays for English classes - some of those writing pieces I have never committed to and read thoroughly.
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