Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin Ireland to two accomplished parents his mother being a respected poet and translator and his father a knighted surgeon Wilde won prizes in classics throughout his youth and received prestigious scholarships to Trinity and then Magdalen College Oxford where he won further prizes for his poetry While at Oxford he came under the influence of aestheticians Walter Pater and John Ruskin and joined them in becoming a key figure in the founding of the Aesthetic Mo
Oscar Wilde was well known for his use of paradoxes throughout his writing One of his best pieces The Picture of Dorian Gray had numerous paradoxes throughout it He loved using paradoxes and that is why Lord Henry the character most similar to Wilde is quoted as being called Prince Paradox Characters in the novel had to decide between conscience and instinct when facing dilemmas Although conscience and instinct seem paradoxical a compromise between them would be the best solution Conscience is
Oscar Wilde's comedy, An Ideal Husband, is a play full of blackmail and deception. Sir Robert is conned into supporting a fraudulent scheme by Mrs. Cheveley, who has incriminating information about him. Mrs. Cheveley also attempts to trick Sir Robert into thinking that his wife, Lady Chiltern, is having an affair with Lord Goring. All is resolved in the end, with Lady Chiltern and Sir Robert reuniting and Lord Goring proposing marriage to Robert's sister, Mabel.
Salome is an 1893 play by Oscar Wilde. The play tells the biblical story of John the Baptist's execution. Salome, the stepdaughter of tetrach Herod Antipas, finds herself attracted to the imprisoned Jokonaan (Saint John the Baptist), who rejects her advances. Salome makes a deal with Herod, who, to the chagrin of Salome's mother, Herodias, is attracted to her. Salome performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for Herod, and, upon seeing her kiss the severed head of Jokonaan, orders the guards to kill her.
The Canterville Ghost is a famous Victorian short story concerning the haunting of an old English house. When an American family moves in, however, the ghost finds that it is impossible to frighten them; in fact, the tables are turned, and he ends up being terrorized by the family's twin boys. This comical story deals with themes of life and death, and satirizes the tropes of the established tradition of ghost stories by reversing the reader's expectations.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, the respectable young Jack Worthing, bored with his upright life in the country as the guardian of his cousin Cecily, often goes to the city under the name Ernest, who he pretends is his wastrel younger brother. When his friend Algy discovers this duplicity, he goes to the country to woo Cecily, all the while pretending to be Ernest. This play mocks both the Victorian obsession with marriage and the upper-class preoccupation with rules and being proper.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by Oscar Wilde about Dorian Gray and his life of sin. Dorian's original wish comes true: that a portrait of him will age in his stead, after which he begins to seek out beauty. His lover Sibyl kills herself and Dorian falls into hedonism, lust and vice. Many years later, after realizing his fundamental selfishness, he attacks the painting and is later found dead and suddenly aged. The book presents a tension between aesthetics and ethics, between hedonism and righteousness.
English Essay Oscar Wildes novel is an extended metaphor that reinforces his idea that There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book In The Picture Of Dorian Gray his view is very contradictory His theory is reinforced through the changes in Dorians personality the yellow book A Rebours against nature which was one of the most important novels during the decadence period which was given to Dorian Gray by Lord Henry Consequently leading us to the corruption of Dorian Gray and his inevitable