Society tends to have expectations and stereotypes that are actually a corruption of reality. Many people draw assumptions based on the set values of a culture or society. Those that stray or are isolated from those cultural values because of on the gender, race, class, or creed actually reveal these stereotypes and conventional ideas. Throughout the play The Importance of Being Earnest there were a few characters that deviations showed the assumptions of society.
In the play Jack who is also known as Earnest in the city is assumed to be an honest fellow because of the creed or belief that his name meant he was a noble and man of God. The people of this time believed that names had a meaning. Your