Miss Prism Importance Of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, has many characters that play important roles throughout different parts of the play. Each character sets up as an obstacle for another character. The character that played a major part in the play, even though it was not known until later in the play, was Miss Prism. She knew something that would change the attitude and lives of the main characters. She did not reveal this secret nor would she have if she had not been called out on it by a person from her past.
Miss Prism was a pivotal character in the play, but not one would have known throughout most of the play. She seemed, in the beginning of the play, to be just another bystander in the background. She kept quite quiet throughout the majority,