stage direction‚ showing that Wilde was more interested in what the character said rather than how the character acted‚ this can be further seen when Algernon says to Lane “I don’t know that I am much interested in your family life‚ Lane.” Further showing Algernon’s self centered attitudes‚ however this is quickly changed when he meets Cecily‚ calling her “the visible personification of absolute perfection.” Showing the hypocritical nature of the characters. Wilde uses this as a way of creating
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People have the tendency to judge situations and matters according to how society judges the same situation. Oscar Wilde‚ the playwright of The Importance of Being Earnest‚ takes these preconceptions in and inverts the practices that we perceive to be true in order to advocate social and political change. By emphasizing these discrepancies in marriage and the social aristocracy‚ Wilde satirizes Victorian traditions and ultimately advocates change. The Characters in The Importance of Being Earnest
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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 proves within his novel‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ that as one becomes more and more transfixed upon narcissistic commodities‚ such as beauty‚ they experience a moral digression. Dorian Gray‚ at the beginning of the novel‚ is healthy and morally good. He retains his youth and innocence. Lord Henry‚ however‚ alters Dorian’s view of beauty and how life should be spent. Lord Henry terrifies Dorian of the aging process by telling him that‚ “ You only have a few good years in which to
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’Protestant Gothic’ help us to understand Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray? Even though his last years were horrible for him‚ being sent to prison and criticized by lots of people because of one of his own novels‚ one can’t deny that Oscar Wilde lived a really interesting life. His wittiness -shown in his numerous epigrams‚ like «The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about»-‚ sense of humor‚ vividness and way of thinking made him one of the most interesting people
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Purpose of Art Oscar Wilde was a very shrewd intellectual who through the teachings of Walter Pater and John Ruskin became a strong supporter of the aesthetics movement. This movement was one which wanted to shy society away from the fact that art had a purpose. They wanted simply to have art for art’s sake. In essence what this means is that art’s only true purpose is beauty and there are no underlying symbols‚ meanings‚ or derivations of art it is simply art. Oscar Wilde attempts to promote his
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Esseintes and Dorian A man with a copious amount of sin will collapse under the weight of his guilt just as a tortoise with a shell gilded in precious jewels and gold will collapse under the weight of it’s wealth. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and À Rebours (Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans explore similar ideas. Not only did À Rebours inspire Dorian Gray to leap into his life of sin in The Picture of Dorian Gray in the form of the ‘yellow book‚’ but it was also said to have inspired
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The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ written by Oscar Wilde‚ begins with an introduction of witty sayings discussing the question of if art has any use; and if it does‚ what are its implications. Likewise‚ "My Last Duchess"‚ written by Oscar Wilde’s Victorian contemporary Robert Browning‚ also delves into these provocative questions. Both The Picture of Dorian Gray and "My Last Duchess" explore the question of whether art has a moral element or whether it is only a purely meaningless application of the
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" was written by the famous Irish author Oscar Wilde. The play represents Wilde´s late Victorian view of the aristocracy‚ marriage‚ wit and social life during the early 1900’s. His characters are typical Victorian snobs who are arrogant‚ overly proper‚ formal and concerned with money. The women are portrayed as sheltered‚ uneducated‚ and some as dominating figures over the men in their lives. There is no sense of identity for Cecily and Gwendolen‚ the only woman within
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.................................18 3 INTRODUCTION Although Oscar Wilde ’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written‚ the novel does not contain any explicit statements of homoeroticism which leaves the novel to be more of a suggestive work of such a theme. The popularity of the novel has much to do with its author and the scandals surrounding him. Oscar Wilde was a master of controversy‚ but the greatest scandal of his life was
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