The elements of restoration comedy that can be seen in The
Importance of Ernest are that the characters are complexity of the characters.
This gives certain depth to the tale. Another
quality that you will see is that the characters lack emotion. This is approached in a certain way to let
the character’s unique quality continues to be strong in the play and will not
intermix with emotions that could alter the character’s nature. Final element is the shortage of heroes as
well as emphasis on weakness and anti-heroes. This
can be seen in the flaws of the characters Jack and Algeron.
