Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest. Algernon. Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if yo
u ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. Jack. That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won’t want to know Bunbury. Algernon. Then your wife will. You don’t seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none. The epigram in Algernon’s last line is used to
This sentence shows Algernon's doubts and critics about marriage.
Through this passage we can see that Algernon does not believe that husband and wife can be faithful to each other, and that they always need a third person to keep them satisfied.
The challenge Percy faces was having to fight his Pre-Algebra teacher, Mrs. Dodds, who was really a monster in disguise. He defeated her with a pen that turned into a sword that Mr. Brunner gave him.
