It was then that he was able to appreciate who he really was and said, “... I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest” (Wilde 1895). As these were the last words Ernest spoke, they were also the last words in the play, and the first time ‘Ernest’ was spelled ‘Earnest’. Farhan Nuruzzaman wrote an article on lecture given by Ellis Hanson. In that article Nuruzzaman quoted Hanson stating, "For instance, Ernest is a person's name, as well as a character trait that means moral seriousness. It also refers to Oscar Wilde's own double life in the sense that we can say someone is earnest, meaning morally serious, and we can also say that someone is in earnest, which means that person really means what he says, but if you say that man is in Ernest, then you naturally say Ernest who, and you start to understand the homosexual double entendre that Wilde was getting at" (Nuruzzaman 2011). By making this the last sentence of the play, the true meaning of the name/word Earnest comes to full circle. Since the word earnest means trustworthy, loving, honorable, passionate, and sincere, the ending of the play can be read as a way to tell the audience to be true to who they are; be the ideal man describe in this play and not someone who goes by a fake identity. In Wilde’s case the ‘importance of being earnest’ was to embrace his sexuality. The correlation was so real that Eberson wrote about how Conall Morrison believed he should direct a play with an all-male cast. “The scene first played out in Conall Morrison's imagination, with the idea that "Earnest," a searing satire of the Victorian upper crust, became Wilde's enduring success because it contained so much of the playwright himself” (Eberson 2011)