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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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    ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ by Oscar Wilde presents a window into the minds and manners of the upper class Victorian society of London. He satirizes the hypocrisy‚ which underlies the day-to-day behavior of the so-called aristocrats‚ and mocks at their shallow morals and beliefs‚ especially those pertaining to marriage. In Victorian society‚ women were treated as the ‘weaker vessel’ that had to be cared and provided for by men‚ first her father and then her husband. However‚ Wilde shows us how different

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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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    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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    An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde Themes The Rococo Tapestry Act I takes place against the backdrop of a Rococo tapestry‚ a representation of François Boucher’s "Triumph of Love" (1754). The "Triumph" allegorizes the victory of love over power: Venus points to Vulcan’s conquered heart‚ and the god gazes up at her like a love-sick boy. Though the most obvious reading might consider the tapestry as prefiguring the defeat of Mrs. Cheveley and reconciliation of the play’s

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    De Profundis        Oscar Wilde                   De Profundis    DE PROFUNDIS    .  .  .  Suffering  is  one  very  long  moment.  We  cannot  divide  it  by  seasons.  We  can  only  record  its  moods‚  and  chronicle  their  return.  With  us  time  itself  does  not  progress.  It  revolves.  It  seems  to  circle  round  one  centre  of  pain.  The  paralysing  immobility  of  a  life  every  circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern‚ so 

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    Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest The Novel The Importance of Being Earnest was more enjoyable to me than the film. The reason for this was‚ while my imagination pictured the story and the visuals of the people and the settings quite similar to the on-screen portrayal‚ my mind’s images were more enjoyable. The differences portrayed on film were distinctive in the characters‚ scenery‚ and mostly the soundtrack I had not envisioned while reading the play. While they absolutely worked

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    5/31/2015 The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde: Summary Meritantion Like 268k  PurchaseCall us at 011­40705070  or   Click to Call Explore Nowdown Arrow Log In Register JEE | AIPMT Class XII Class XI Class X Class IX Class VIII Class VII Class VI Class V Class IV Class III Class II Class I The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde: Summary Share 0 Tweet 0 0 The Canterville Ghost‚ by Oscar Wilde‚ begins when Mr. Otis and his family come to live in the Canterville Chase‚ even though they were advised not to

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    Oscar Wilde And His Fairy Tales I. Introduction WildeOscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) (b. Oct. 16‚ 1854‚ Dublin‚ Ire ?d. Nov. 30‚ 1900‚ Paris‚ Fr.) Irish wit‚ poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1899). He was a spokesman for Aestheticism‚ the late19th-century movement in England that advocated art for art’s sake. However‚ Oscar Wilde’s takeoff of his enterprise and‚ his shaping of his characteristic

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    Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet‚ novelist‚ author of short stories as well as playwright‚ and it was his comedies which made him famous. In spite of that‚ it looks like his works remain only a reflection of his great mind. He was always fascinated by the public - for his work he needed immediate reaction. Probably he was a better storyteller than writer. Nevertheless‚ Oscar Wilde was a very talented student‚ with great memory. He studied at Trinity College in Dublin and later on in Oxford

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