Through the play, "The Importance of Being Earnest" and the story" Masque of Red Death," selfish was shown in all nature of the characters; furthermore, selfishness is always present in the most important or simplest things in humans and also manifested through the essentials of each human's life, such as wealth or health, Lady Bracknell concerned about jack's business and did not care about his feeling about he did not know his identity, and the prince in the face of life and death, he closed this palace and didn't care about people outside, especially, those people seemed coming from different period and class, they are all selfish and cared about the benefit of themselves and all of that was shown regardless period class and gender.