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.
