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John (Jack/Ernest) Worthing :[pic 1]

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. He says he has a little brother called Ernest in the country. 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. He proposed her as the name of Ernest but Lady Bracknell doesn't give her consent.At the end of the movie we learn that Algy and Jack are brothers.He manage to marry to Gwendolen.

Algernon Moncrieff :[pic 2]

  Algernon is a charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest. Algernon is brilliant, witty, selfish, amoral, and given to making delightful paradoxical and epigrammatic pronouncements. He has invented a fictional friend, “Bunbury,” an invalid whose frequent sudden relapses allow Algernon to wriggle out of unpleasant or dull social obligations.

When he learn that Jack is the guardian of Cecily he decide to go to Jack's country home as known as Ernest. He fall in love with Cecily and proposed her with the name of Ernest. 

At the end of the movie Cecily and him succeed to marry.

Dr. Canon Chasuble :

He is a clergyman. The rector on Jack’s estate. Both Jack and Algernon approach Dr. Chasuble to request that they be christened “Ernest.” Dr. Chasuble entertains secret romantic feelings for Miss Prism.[pic 3]

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