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Hidden Self and Oscar Wilde

he sees Dorian daily; "I couldnt be happy if I didnt see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me" ("Picture", 113). Howeve...

Oscar Wilde's Trials and His Incriminating Writings

providing a checklist, as it were, of characteristics and traits which are noted in the degenerate nature. This, of course, did ...

The Masks Characters Wear in “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Hamlet”

Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...

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...

The Importance of Being Earnest

importance. With that in mind the following paper examines the two characters separately and then together in a discussion, in rel...

Keeping Secrets: Othello and The Importance of Being Earnest

of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...

Dorian Gray and His Views of Beauty

is probably much closer to Wildes intent that these expressions of love and beauty be considered in a much more abstract way: Gray...

The Picture of Dorian Gray And Human Nature

should he do? In an attempt to capture his youth, he sells his soul and instead of aging, the portrait ages in place of Dorians ow...

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...

The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters' Approach to Art and Life

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

Wilde's and Dickens' Ideas of Traditional Families

the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...

Oscar Wilde and Incongruity

In five pages this paper examines Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Seville's Crime, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, Decay of Lying, and The Pict...

Oscar Wilde's Writings and the Impact of Homosexuality

In 10 pages this paper examines the impact of homosexuality on Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Importance of Being E...

Homosexuality in the Works of Oscar Wilde

for the women we marry - that is quite true" (Lady PG). Attention to outer detail and an unquenchable desire to portray his inner...

Victorian Morality and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...

Oscar Wilde's Western Theatrical Achievements

older brother Willie and younger sister Isola (Kenyon 12). When his beloved sister died at the age of ten, it was a catastrophic ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Comparative Analysis of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Misanthrope

word be spoken that comes not from the heart" (Moliere I.i). As this opening argument to the play suggests, Molieres view of fun...

Literary Analysis: The Importance of Being Earnest

attractive young lady and Gwendolyns country counterpart, rounds out the cast. Not for a moment would we expect to find the sort o...

The Concept of Time in Two Novels

do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf foll...

The Concept of Time in Woolf and Wilde

can do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf ...

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...

Deception and Mistaken Identity in Wilde and Aeschylus

motion the rest of the grounds for the deceit in the play. As Clytemnestra watches her daughter butchered at the hands of her hus...

'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" ...