Draft Speech Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde.
As you can see from the title itself, I am going to discuss over this great author (O.W.) and over his as much widely known work and also only novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
You probably know who this personality is, or by (?) hearsay, or because you have red one of his works or simply for personal knowledge.
Oscar Wilde was basically a genius of literature whose skill with words provoked both admiration and argument in and also beyond his lifetime. He was an Anglo-Irish novelist, poet, critic and playwright. He was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854.
His father was a successful surgeon and ophthalmologist (eye doctor) and his mother a writer and literary hostess.
Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Wilde became involved in the aesthetic movement. After his graduation, he moved to London to pursue a literary career.
Drama and tragedy ruined Wilde's private life. He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two sons, but in 1891 Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas aka “Bosie”. In April 1895, Wilde sued Bosie's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, for libel, after the Marquis has accused him of being homosexual. In fact, despite he was married and with two sons, he was an active homosexual Wilde lost and, after details of his private life were revealed during the trial, was arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two years of hard labour. While in prison he composed a long letter to Douglas, posthumously published under the title 'De Profundis' . His wife took their children to Switzerland and adopted the name 'Holland'.
Wilde was released with his health irrevocably damaged and his reputation ruined. He spent the rest of his life in Europe, publishing 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' in 1898. He died in Paris on 30 November 1900. bankrupt and disgraced. Although he was married with two sons, he was an active homosexual and at that time in Victorian
As you can see from the title itself, I am going to discuss over this great author (O.W.) and over his as much widely known work and also only novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
You probably know who this personality is, or by (?) hearsay, or because you have red one of his works or simply for personal knowledge.
Oscar Wilde was basically a genius of literature whose skill with words provoked both admiration and argument in and also beyond his lifetime. He was an Anglo-Irish novelist, poet, critic and playwright. He was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854.
His father was a successful surgeon and ophthalmologist (eye doctor) and his mother a writer and literary hostess.
Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Wilde became involved in the aesthetic movement. After his graduation, he moved to London to pursue a literary career.
Drama and tragedy ruined Wilde's private life. He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two sons, but in 1891 Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas aka “Bosie”. In April 1895, Wilde sued Bosie's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, for libel, after the Marquis has accused him of being homosexual. In fact, despite he was married and with two sons, he was an active homosexual Wilde lost and, after details of his private life were revealed during the trial, was arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two years of hard labour. While in prison he composed a long letter to Douglas, posthumously published under the title 'De Profundis' . His wife took their children to Switzerland and adopted the name 'Holland'.
Wilde was released with his health irrevocably damaged and his reputation ruined. He spent the rest of his life in Europe, publishing 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' in 1898. He died in Paris on 30 November 1900. bankrupt and disgraced. Although he was married with two sons, he was an active homosexual and at that time in Victorian