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When people read or watch The Importance of Being Earnest they laugh at the jokes, but what they do not realize is the truth Oscar Wilde is stating in the text. Farhan Nuruzzaman writes an article on a Cornell English professor, Ellis Hanson, who unveils the disturbing satire in Wilde’s ‘Earnest’ play. Hanson states, "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.” Hanson believed that the play invited the audience to think more deeply about marriage and how it could be between people of the same sex.