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Who is the main protagonist leading a double life in The Importance of Being Earnest?

AAlgernon Moncrieff

BJack Worthing

CLady Bracknell

DDr. Chasuble

Answer:

B. Jack Worthing

Read Explanation:

Jack Worthing

  • The play’s protagonist. Jack Worthing is a seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life.

  • In Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate, Jack is known as Jack. In London he is known as Ernest.

  • As a baby, Jack was discovered in a handbag in the cloakroom of Victoria Station by an old man who adopted him and subsequently made Jack guardian to his granddaughter, Cecily Cardew.

  • Jack is in love with his friend Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax. The initials after his name indicate that he is a Justice of the Peace.


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