Oscar Wilde 's Life And Accomplishments

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.

Write an essay that argues your position on the extent to which Wilde’s claims are valid.

         The novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde originally appeared in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890.  It was then published in 1891, in book form, containing six additional chapters with revisions. The first reviews of Dorian Gray were mostly unfavorable.  It was condemned for its speculative treatment  of immoral or at least uncomfortable subjects. A review in the St. James’s Gazette by Samuel Henry Jeyes, journalist and biographer was titled "‘A Study in Puppydom."   Jeyes refers to Wilde’s idle, “effeminate” characters in the book and writes: “The puppies appear to fill up the intervals of talk by plucking daisies and playing with them, and

    "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,

Wilde uses the satirical devices travesty and irony in order to portray marriage negatively. Through his use of satire, one can infer that Wilde sees marriage as a hindrance and a task that society seems to be obsessed with. In Act 1, the proposal scene is shown. After Gwendolen and Jack admit that they have feelings for each other, Jack states that they should get married at once, but Gwendolen decides that Jack must properly propose first. The use of travesty is present here when the meaningful act of proposing to someone is constructed to be comical. Jack asks Gwendolen if he may propose to her. When most individuals wish to propose, they do not usually ask for permission first. Once Jack does propose, Gwendolen asks as though she is surprised and asks, “How long have you been about it!” (line 360). Through the way that Jack and Gwendolen conduct themselves, marriage can be perceived as trivial, when it is actually a significant act because a person is committing to a life with another individual. This shows that Wilde does not agree with marriage and it is not to be taken as seriously as society treats it today.

Throughout his life Oscar Wilde had many strong influences exerted upon him. During his early childhood his mother influenced him and into college some of his professors and certain philosophers left a substantial impression upon him. Into adulthood these influences leaked out in his writing. These influences gave him ample ideas for writing The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde's study of the Hellenistic ideals of Epicurus, his coddled lifestyle as a child and his devotion to the movement of Aesthetics and Moral Ambiguity have produced one of the most astounding works of horror fiction.

Walt Whitman was part of the transcendentalism era and was one of the greatest American poet and journalist of his time. He was born on May 31, 1819 in New York. Having a large family his father and mother did not have time to read his starting work or pay much attention to him for that matter. Walt went out of his wat to drop out of school to help his family. He taught in many schools and after teaching, he returned to printing and editing in New York. During this time, he edited many papers such as the daily newspaper. In addition to editing, he also wrote for the Long Island Star. His success story has inspired many and had unfolded the truths of romanticism and transcendentalism.

Known for his unique writing style, prominence in the Decadence movement, art critiques, and imprisonment for homosexuality, Oscar Wilde is one of the most well known Irish authors of all time. Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Willis Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin Ireland. His father, Sir William Wilde, was a successful aural surgeon, and his mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, was a revolutionary poet and a great supporter of the Irish nationalist movement. Her passion for literature had an obvious impact on Oscar Wilde, as well as on his brother Willie Wilde, who went on to become a journalist and poet. Wilde also had a younger sister, Isola, who died at the age of ten. During his childhood, Wilde was able to interact with well-known artists, doctors, and other influential intellectuals that his parents knew. These interactions probably had a lasting influence on Oscar Wilde’s beliefs and attitudes.

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

Oscar Wilde’s Writings in Society Oscar wilde as both a person and an author was never ashamed to be true. Wilde lived a life that was and still is considered controversial to many in society. He wrote with a snarky tone that showed how he thought of himself in comparison to the rest of the world. Wilde didn’t allow a single factor to define him, but instead made a complex definition for himself from his life as a whole. Growing up, his dad was a doctor and was knighted for his work on the census.

What influences an author’s writing style? Maybe it is the time period, their age, or even the way they were raised and their beliefs. However, society influenced Oscar Wilde while he was writing his play The Importance of Being Earnest, and made it a play that the readers can still enjoy. In Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the characters’ identities are manipulated by the society, in which they live in, and their own speech and actions which cause them to live two separate lifestyles in the city and the country.

Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet. And everything else can find in a book or online, I am not going to do that today, I am sure you are not interested in the regurgitation of Oscar Wilde facts. I am sure that you know most of what is written there better than the people that wrote those facts on Wikipedia any way. I am not going to talk about the importance of being earnest in any way shape or form, trust me for I am in the gutter looking up at the stars right now and everything that is written here will probably be a huge lie. I cannot resist the temptation to it is just too hard not to sit here and just write a bunch of untold truths at least I won’t

Oscar Wilde is a legendary author who has composed many great plays including The Green Carnation and A Woman of No Importance, however, The Importance of Being Earnest was undoubtedly the most famous of his works. First published in 1930, yet acknowledged since the late 1800s, The Importance of Being Earnest helped to revive the theater tradition of Congreve and Sheridan. The story is a comedic view of romance and the emphasis we place on seemingly trivial articles, such as a name. In this story, contrary to the typical saying, a rose by any other name would not smell as sweet.

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