Analysis Of Oscar Wilde 's Life

Throughout mankind, there have been plenty of time where disobedience has lead to  greater changes for humanity. Author Oscar Wilde once stated “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history. Is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion.” Wilde’s statement claims that disobedience is a trait that every human possesses, disobedience is the reason society is so developed. As history has shown us, humans have never been satisfied when there is a higher power over them. For this reason, it is through disobedience and rebellion that social progress has been made.

Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde (1845-1903) lived an outrageous and controversial life which was well publicized and condemned, as his life defied the strict social mores of the time. He was put into this public position due to the success of his plays which challenged Victorian earnestness while being hilariously funny. His plays, in particular An Ideal Husband, 1895 portray Victorian society as viciously hypocritical at it's worst and laughably pretentious at it's best. Wilde expressed this point of view in An Ideal Husband through the rich use of plot development, construction of characters, dramatic irony, hyperbole, witty and epigrammatic repartee and satire.

Carnegie Hall- A concert hall in New York City where Mia Hall, a cellist, is playing a show. It is a surprise to Adam Wilde, upcoming rock star, to see the sign outside the concert hall. He has known Mia for years. Adam buys a ticket to the concert, and Mia invites him backstage, where they speak for the first time in three years.

    "I turned half way around and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself" (7). During the Victorian era, this was a dangerous quote. The Victorian era was about progress. It was an attempt aimed at cleaning up the society and setting a moral standard. The Victorian era was a time of relative peace and economic stability (Marshall 783). Victorians did not want anything "unclean" or "unacceptable" to interfere with their idea of perfection. Therefore, this quote, taken from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the Superego, and the Id” (Sigmund Freud).

My own differences make me who I am and not just the offspring of my mother and father. Everyone has the ability to be unique from others by not being lead by others opinions and ideas. The leaders of history show that this true and a recurring theme in humanity’s struggle to accept who they are. Ralph Waldo Emerson championed the idea of that unique individual who triumphed over other people’s propaganda and rhetoric. I believe that his ideals are rewarded by humanity’s gradually accepting nature of other’s differences and

John Lahr, a critic of the famous author and playwright Oscar Wilde, once claimed, “To stand out in Victorian culture,Wilde had to stand against it.” Wilde definitely did not conform to the society by which he was surrounded; being an aesthetic homosexual was not the typical or ideal Victorian man. His distaste for the era he lived in is seen clearly in his humorous play The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde was personally judged and outcasted by his own society, which caused him to mock his audience and argue that the Victorian Era was not as virtuous as those of that time attempted to appear. He uses this piece of writing as an opportunity to not only stand against and disprove the Victorian ideals, but to persuade his audience to realize

Oscar Wilde was born in the height victorian age. His dad was a doctor tell he died. His mother who wrote under an alias for an irish newspaper called The Nation until it was raided in 1848 and had to close. He had 5 siblings, Willie Wilde, Mary wilde, Emile Wilde, Isola Wilde, and Henry Wilde. He has been rich and poor all his life and today he has been remembered for all the good he did and all the bad.

Oscar Wilde was bound for success from the very beginning. His father, by the time he was 28 years old, had not only graduated as a physician, but had also completed voyages to Madiera, North Africa, Teneriffe, and the Middle East, studied at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, written two books, and had been appointed medical advisor for the Irish Census of 1841 (Biography). Among these many successes, his father also opened up his own practice, and founded St. Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital, and built it entirely at his own expense. On the contrary, Oscar’s mother wrote poems for the weekly Irish newspaper, and was also a profound lyricist.

The Victorian era emerged as a narrowly conventional society that strived to continue the excellence of idealistic morals and conventions that both assisted in the formation of the time period and that remained constant throughout the sixty-plus years in English history. Notable figures of the 19th century influenced how society functioned and often challenged the norm. Among these figures, Irish playwright Oscar Wilde poised his actions and writings to contest and satirise the societal customs that were existent during the era. Throughout Wilde’s workings, he both explicitly and implicitly wove myriad viewpoints into his plays and novels – these contained the satirised comments and suppositions of the Victorian era, which ranged from social

Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband (1893) is of a genre that is unlikely to ever fade out; the dramatic comedy. Wilde utilises melodramatic language to explore several heavy subjects such as compassion and empathy but there is no doubting that the play is of the romantic comedy genre. And this is concreted by the fact that this is a play that not only comments on society but makes comedy of people’s faults and bad habits via the employment of the comedic conventions satire. Oscar Wilde effectively blends these comedic devices into the play’s melodramatic “drawing room comedy”, which traditionally features upper-class people in social and family situations of which Wilde was considered a master, to provoke thought on different societal subjects

Oscar Wilde was an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. He is recognized as one of the foremost figures of the late nineteenth-century aesthetic movement, centered on the doctrine of “art for art’s sake”, supporting an emphasis on aesthetic value rather than social-political or moral themes. Wilde was born into an intellectual Irish family on October 16th, 1854. His father was an aural surgeon and his mother was a poet. She established a literary salon through which she exposed Wilde and his siblings to literature, art, and culture. As a young man, Wilde attended Trinity College in Dublin, and then Oxford for further studies. It was here that he made his first substantial attempts at creative writing and adopted aestheticism as a way of life.

Ed Cohen's Talk on the Wilde Side discusses the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895. Cohen explores the lack of legal transcripts of the case which relies on newspaper press reports and accounts to document this lawsuit. His investigations into the clarity of the newspaper accounts found that they "were themselves highly mediated stories whose narrative structures organized and gave meaningful shapes to the events they purported to accurately represent" (4). In the second part of his book, Cohen discusses Oscar Wilde's trial and its importance, the results of the fictionalized newspaper accounts of the proceedings, as well as the role of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray in the legal

On the 16th of October 1854, Oscar Wilde was born to father William Wilde and Mother Jane Elgee (Biography.com). I can say with the utmost conviction that he grew up not only to be a good man but a great one. Oscar was one of the brightest minds of his time. Frequently he tested the boundaries of what was acceptable in polite society. He would burn a mark into our society that continued to glow white hot long after his death on November 30, 1900. Wilde left an incredible legacy behind, because of his personality, literary works, and his trials.

Having a double life plays an important role in two of Oscar Wilde’s works, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. These two works reflect a great deal about Oscar Wilde’s thoughts and ideas on Victorian Life. The Importance of Being Earnest gives examples and commentary on why living a double life is necessary to be happy in the Victorian Era. The Picture of Dorian Gray shows the importance of the double life through actions that take place during the book. Oscar Wilde shows that living a double life is necessary to be happy in the Victorian Era by reflecting his own double life in both works of literature.