Oscar Wilde as Dorian Gray ‘I have put too much of myself in it’ (Wilde 12)‚ commented Basil Hallward‚ a fictional artist‚ about his newly completed masterpiece. Just like Oscar Wilde‚ the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890‚ revised 1891)‚ who put so much of his life into his novel; his experience‚ surroundings‚ and the global happenings of his time‚ strongly influenced the production of the speculative‚ philosophical‚ gothic novel. The author’s homosexuality‚ the ridiculous social standards
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Novelist and poet Oscar Wilde was one of the most talented and controversial writers of the philosophical Victorian Era who was better known for his scandalous bohemian life style than his literary work. Because of Wilde’s “gross indecency” ("Oscar Wilde Biography")‚ literary critics and society during this literary philosophical period‚ were often unenthusiastic and even hostile towards his work. Wilde established himself in artistic and prestigious circles by his flamboyance and quick wit‚ though
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death was beautiful. Oscar Wilde’s main interest involves double lives. The concept of double lives is shown in real life based on the fact that we never show people who we really are. Wilde himself lived a double life which leads to a series of unfortunate events. His work that exposed his life of duplicity at the greatest factor was his play. The reason his literature was indulged in this theme was simply because he could not escape it‚ he faced it in his day-to-day life. In Oscar Wilde’s literature
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THE TRAGIC MODE IN OSCAR WILDE’S FAIRY TALES DÉBORAH SCHEIDT‚ Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa ABSTRACT: In this paper we examine the articulation of the tragic mode in Oscar Wilde‟s collection of fairy tales The Happy Prince and Other Stories‚ especially in “The Young King”‚ “The Selfish Giant” and “The Birthday of the Infanta.” By “tragic mode” we mean‚ in this context‚ the vestiges left by Greek tragedy and its development‚ the Elizabethan tragedy‚ in a piece of nineteenth century fiction
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Oscar Wilde’s conversion to Catholicism was a slow—if not incomplete—change of heart. Indeed‚ it seemed to be the “form‚ rather than the content” (Ellman 34) that began the author’s dalliance with the religion‚ as he seemed instinctively drawn to the maryr-happy‚ scarlet-toned atmosphere of piety due to its artistic implications. It was Catholicism’s deviancy from the normative values of Victorian Anglicanism‚ not the specificities of its dogma‚ which attracted Wilde‚ as its contrast with religious
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Importance’ Oscar Wilde gradually and effectively introduces the characters of the play in a fashionably manner. The play is quite naturalistic so Wilde commences the opening of act one with a social conversation. The purpose of the play is to portray women’s attitudes and views on their current century. Each of the characters introduced in the play is unique from one another‚ they’re point of view on life in general is diverse. To create a contrast between the characters in the play‚ Oscar Wilde introduces
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The Model Millionaire‚by Oscar Wilde I. Presentation of the story The short story The Model Millionaire is part of the book Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories‚ a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It is a third-person narrative‚ whose narrator starts the text expressing his opinions and judgments about the characters. Hughie‚ the main character‚ is described as a very handsome man‚ whose beauty is useless‚ because he is poor
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Having been written when Oscar Wilde’s literary career was blossoming‚ The Nightingale and the Rose is one of his most well-known works. This tale reflects the author’s glorification of natural beauty‚ artificial beauty and also the beauty of devoted love. Beauty and art were the measure of all things. He admired unselfishness‚ kindness and generosity. In this tale‚ the true love is the main theme and the appearance of other characters is to show their attitudes towards the true love‚ which are very
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A very famous playwright‚ novelist‚ essayist‚ poet and epigrammatist wrote the story entitled "The Birthday of the Infanta". This story by genre is partly short story and partly fairy-tale. The story told the readers about a little Dwarf‚ who was ugly‚ hunchbacked‚ monster‚ but did not realize it by himself. And one day he looked in the invisible wall of clear water and saw his own reflection. He could not ever imagine that he is so ugly‚ so deterrent. Dwarf’s little heart could not bear such shock
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Oscar Wilde observations on disobedience were changing every year he continued his observations. Disobedience progressed to a less meaningful thing throughout the course of history up to this day. History plays a major role in disobedience development‚ because it tells you whether or not we have chosen to use disobedience to the roots we started using it with or not‚ and the answer to that is no because we have diminished the true value of disobedience and rebellious. Martin luther king is a person
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