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Plot Analysis of The Importance of Being Ernest 　　Abstract Throughout Oscar Wilde’s farcical comedy， The Importance of Being Ernest， there are two story lines. The lines are both independent to each other， but are connected with each other. With the author’s thoughtful arrangement and distinctive technology， the two lines push the development of plot； intensify the depth of conflict and make the structure complete. It seems the author told us a story， but indeed it gives us a lot of inspiration and education. 　　Key words plot analysis；double-line structure；conflict arrangement 　　中图分类号：I106.4 文献标识码：A 　　The Importance of Being Ernest was written by Oscar Wilde in 1895， which is Wilde’s representative works， and it is also widely recognized？as one of the best works of British comedy. This work represented a love story of four young persons， and satirized the marriage of upper class in Victoria period. Throughout the story， we can see various viewpoints of people with different status， and these viewpoints， thanks to Wilde’s excellent？maneuver in drama writing， have become Wilde’s classic？quotations publically permeated？and dictated.？Particularly worth mentioning is the well-knit plot， which arranges all events of the most improbable and trivial significance. The beauty of structure reflects on the double-line plot development， which is elegantly？integrated？with the conflict of the drama. 　　First of all， let’s analyze the double story line of the work： one is the issue of young people’s marriage； the other is “who is Ernest”. In the following paragraphs， I will analyze the plot and the conflict of this drama， using each of the story lines respectively. 　　Let’s look at the first story line with the necessary elements one by one. Referring to the development of the plot， we must get to know four key words： exposition， complications， climax and douement. Exposition is the part of a plot that provides the essential background information so that the events in the plots