Oscar Wilde

The short story, The Sound Of The Singing, deals with conflicts and how they effect the people in them and around them. Vanessa McLeod is a dynamic character who changes her perception of herself in the course of the story. Through her changed perception, Margaret Laurence is suggesting that a person’s identity is change by their surroundings and the conflicts they fight through in there lives.

The monologue has a dual persona, a woman and a man having a conversation. The first character in the poem is the woman who expresses the things she does not have, and the second character is the man giving her advise on how to obtain the things she is searching for. The woman is

Edgar Allan Poe was known for his mystery and macabre poetry and short stories, and there is one story that fits this genre perfectly. It is about a prince and his people hiding from a disease, the red death, but they find themselves trapped inside the abbey with it. Edgar Allan Poe wanted to send a message through an interesting plot with a hidden theme. In the short story, “The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, the theme that trying to avoid death will make life go by quickly is developed by the colored rooms, monotonous clock, and the masked red death. To create an interesting theme, the author used symbolism to develop the theme, and the first one he used were the colored rooms.

Human beings possess several virtues that differentiate them from other creatures and can use them in ways that represent their perceptions of social order. Surprisingly, Oscar Wilde believes that disobedience is an original virtue of every human and that it is responsible for progress and development. While Wilde’s claim is not entirely accurate, it is largely valid as evidenced by the recent events across the world, including the US, that have led to positive outcomes in spite of being termed and perceived as acts of disobedience.

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Throughout life we are told not to do anything bad and to not break the rules, however how is a person supposed to learn from what they do wrong? Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man’s original virtue…,” through historical evidence this statement is made true because without minor disobedience and rebellion, we wouldn’t have the basic human rights that we have today. In the second part of his quote, Wilde makes a point that through the disobedience and rebellion of historical figures, social progress would not have been made, and the shape of American culture wouldn’t be the way it is today.

An object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Newton’s first law of motion identifies what is needed to produce change. Oscar Wilde shared similar observations when he said, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” Both Newton and Wilde recognized how force was essential in order to successfully achieve change. Although Wilde was an influential leader in the late 1800s, his ideas are still applicable to today’s world just like Newton’s laws of motion. The force of disobedience and rebellion has followed Wilde’s claim by historically altering the world and continuing to serve as a powerful platform for change.

In the poem, the mother directly addresses the audience and goes in depth about how she is feeling. There are different instances in which she is talking to different people. For example, while speaking to the audience, the narrator discusses her abortions and what she is going through in her life. When she is talking to herself, she seems as though she is going through deep issues. When she addresses her dead children, she talks about how a she would treat her children if they were in her possession.

For my poetry explication, I chose to write about a poem entitled, “Her Kind,” by Anne Sexton. This personal poem has three stanzas, and each stanza is connected to a different stage in the speaker’s life through the use of an extended metaphor. At the end of each stanza it repeats, “I have been her kind” (Line 7, 14, 21). From this we can see that the speaker relates to the qualities of each chapter represented in the poem. This poem is written in first person and it also tells a story. I interpreted it as a woman who is reminiscing of her past and who she used to be. The speaker of this poem is Anne Sexton, and she uses imagery, powerful word choices, and repetition to illustrate her life as a witch, a cavewomen, and a martyr.

The voice of this poem is an obvious one; and Indian woman. However there are such moments in this poem where there is a connection between the reader and the poet. The Indian woman is strong, she is a leader and faces all which many do not and manages to hold her head high. She is somewhat a founder of her aboriginal community and although there is an uncertainty as to why, she feels as thought she can overcome what others cannot. The Indian woman is full of knowledge and realizes that there may be such struggles which he must overcome, however she is willing to do so in order to maintain that steady lifestyle for the rest of her community. She is aware that something is wrong (stanza 9), yet understands that there truly is no way out, other than by abiding and staying alive through all of her hardships. This woman is a strong individual and cares for her family.

Accompanied by a call to action, Lorde also inspires a sense of empowerment in her excerpt. Poetry can be seen not only as a mode of social transformation but as an opportunity to inspire oneself and others where there has not been a chance before. For instance, she says poetry is a way to help give “name to the nameless,” and that it “forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams towards survival and change” (Lorde 417). Her work is not just for the feminist movement; it also calls for the exploration and improvement of the self. In this way, it gives women a chance to feel as if their ideas can be heard and important in predominantly male-dominated society. This sense of empowerment inspired by Lorde can also be seen in “Petrified Man.” In a conversation between Leota and Mrs. Fletcher, the two talk about theirs and others’ husbands. At first, Mrs. Fletcher suggests that a woman’s husband should make her behave, but Leota quickly responds with a laugh to which Mrs. Fletcher responds back to with a short speech about how women should stand up for themselves, or there is “just no telling.” Later, Leota even says she told her husband to take a vacation because she was sick of him (Welty 58). Here readers can see that even though the women realize possible consequences from their husbands, they go against them anyways, because in saying they should stand up for themselves, she inadvertently reveals the respect and decency she believes she deserves. Also, this is in the face of blatant oppression in that Mrs. Fletcher states outright that the woman’s husband should keep her in line. The idea is in her head, but she overcomes it, along with Leota, to inspire a sense of empowerment to women during a time much like the one to happen much later than this. Despite the differences in context, the sense of

Everyone disobeys at one point in their life. They either lie to their parents or hide something from a friend or talk back to a teacher. No one in the world is perfect. In 1891,an Irish author by the name of Oscar Wilde once stated,” Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made and through rebellion.”

Homoeroticism and Defiance of Victorian Values in Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Oscar Wilde once satirically said, "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. " Rather than hold the same opinions as those in good Victorian society, he boldly challenges them. Oscar Wilde parallels the relationships of Shakespeare, Michelangelo and other revered historical intellectuals with his relationship to Lord Alfred Douglas in his work, The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and during his criminal trial. Through these parallels, Wilde attempts to normalize and justify his homosexuality in a time of rampant homophobia, forcing the examination of self-expression, through writing and speech, as a tool of defiance.

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

Comprehensive leadership development is an action plan to develop and educate those in leadership positions and complete or nearly all-inclusive manner. The process of education can take on many directions and sciences but generally will look at research in defining the science in leadership, how one develops personally and professionally, influence and motivation dynamics, and ethics.