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Humility in Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

This, of course, did not set well with the Marquess of Queensberry, since Sir Alfred Douglas, his son, was involved closely, and i...

Love, Marriage, and Women in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

Aesthetic Movement Characteristics of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

the previously espoused position of the Church. Most poets adhered to the idea that if man were but to return to his natural world...

Comparing Three Literary Works

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

Reaction to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

is described by Ovid as having unending youth, eternal boyhood: however, one of the points which Wilde is making is that Dorian is...

'Other' in Salome by Oscar Wilde

of his play, rolling several historical Herods into one and using the biblical narrative as the slenderest of bases for his plot" ...

The Issues Addressed in The Return of the King

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

Dorian Gray and Homosexuality

beautiful Dorian. Now without any knowledge of the time period and gender roles, a modern reader would not immediately read into t...

Wilde's "The Happy Prince," Critical Analysis

This essay presents an overview of critical opinion pertaining to "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde. Five pages in length, six sou...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

Themes in The Picture of Dorian Gray

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the story The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This paper includes a discussion of ho...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

1895 play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde created a work that many critics feel is the epitome of the Victorian come...

Comparison of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

Jane Austen's Emma and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Compared

someone is accepted in society. This is but one example, but it speaks of the deeply imbedded social expectations concerning manne...

The Children of Sanchez Autobiography of a Mexican Family by Oscar Lewis from an Anthropological Perspective

cycle of poverty is at play which acts to entrap its unfortunate victims into a set of circumstances which is all but impossible t...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the Character Algernon

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

Eavesdropping in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In twelve pages the importance of eavesdropping and written communications to these two plays are examined. Three sources are cit...

Comic Effects in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Court are called Algernon" (Wilde 76). Here, Wilde is clearly poking fun at the aristocracys preoccupation with names and appeara...

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and The Misanthrope by Moliere

This paper contrasts and compares the characters of Cecily and Alceste in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Comparative Analysis of Architects Oscar Niemeyer and Augustus Pugin

In six pages these 2 architects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are compared and contrasted. Seven sources are cited ...

Mambo Kings by Oscar Hijuelos and Brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts the brothers that appear in this book and how they cement the story's strong found...

Homoeroticism and Aestheticism in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

could have entirely missed that The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gay book. After all, the protagonist, Dorian, is guilty, among oth...

Carousel by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

In eight pages Carousel is the focus of this review regarding Paper Mill Playhouse's interpretation of the famous Rodgers and Hamm...

Individuality According to the Perceptions of John Stuart Mill and Oscar Wilde

The individuality concepts of Wilde and Mill are contrated and compated in a paper consisting of six pages....

Homosexuality and Oscar Wilde

In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...

19th Century Comic Techniques of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay compares An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in a discussion of the comic techniques the...

Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

the prolific authors inherent ability to pursue even the most complex of concepts that effectively appeal to the innermost recesse...

Beauty, Art, and The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In seven pages the ways in which Wilde's novel explores the meaning of beauty and art are discussed. There are no other sources c...