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Source: Google Images Jack Worthing leads a double life. He pretends to have an irresponsible brother named Ernest who leads a scandalous life and is always getting into trouble which gives Jack an excuse to go after him to help him. The fictional brother Ernest is actually an escape route for Jack to slip away from the countryside whenever he feels like enjoying the pleasures of the town. When Jack reveals to Algernon, his friend about the fictional Ernest, Algernon calls him a “Bunburyist”, to his definition is a man who leads a double life. But Jack denies this accusation. This character of Jack denying leading a double life marks his character as indeed dishonest. While Algernon admits that he is a Bunburyist, who leads a double life with a fictional brother named Ernest. Coming to the later part of the play we find that Jack is a man who is double dishonest. When the rest of the party finds out that Jack was actually conning a fake persona he is forced to disclose his secret. He a

Source : Google Images The Lamb by Blake, published in 1789 in his collection Songs of Innocence, is filled with religious sentiments. The speaker in the poem is a child, the representative of innocence. This poem is actually a counterpart to Blakes’s poem “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, where we can find several inverted parallels. The lyric is counterpart to the tiger. “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” represent the two contrary states of the human soul. The lamb represents innocence and humanity whereas the tiger represents a fierce force within man. The speaker, who is a child addresses a Lamb, probably wandering in the meadows. The lamb is a baby lamb because the child calls him Little Lamb. The child asks who made the little lamb in a typical child’s tone, rhythm and diction. He asks him several questions, like who gave it life and food, from where it got its wool and a tender voice which makes the valleys rejoice. Though these questions are rhetorical questions, the poet aims to ma