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In 10 pages this paper examines the impact of homosexuality on Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Importance of Being E...
providing a checklist, as it were, of characteristics and traits which are noted in the degenerate nature. This, of course, did ...
for the women we marry - that is quite true" (Lady PG). Attention to outer detail and an unquenchable desire to portray his inner...
In five pages this paper discusses the significance of sexuality in a consideration of the concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche, the wr...
In five pages this paper examines Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Seville's Crime, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, Decay of Lying, and The Pict...
In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...
and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...
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 ...
the previously espoused position of the Church. Most poets adhered to the idea that if man were but to return to his natural world...
importance. With that in mind the following paper examines the two characters separately and then together in a discussion, in rel...
of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...
is probably much closer to Wildes intent that these expressions of love and beauty be considered in a much more abstract way: Gray...
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...
beautiful Dorian. Now without any knowledge of the time period and gender roles, a modern reader would not immediately read into t...
In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...
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...
This, of course, did not set well with the Marquess of Queensberry, since Sir Alfred Douglas, his son, was involved closely, and i...
someone is accepted in society. This is but one example, but it speaks of the deeply imbedded social expectations concerning manne...
the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...
older brother Willie and younger sister Isola (Kenyon 12). When his beloved sister died at the age of ten, it was a catastrophic ...
1895 play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde created a work that many critics feel is the epitome of the Victorian come...
the everyday eye, Dorian does not seem to age a day, nor does his beauty fade. There are several indications of a homosexual nat...
of his play, rolling several historical Herods into one and using the biblical narrative as the slenderest of bases for his plot" ...
In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...
motion the rest of the grounds for the deceit in the play. As Clytemnestra watches her daughter butchered at the hands of her hus...
people at the OM company are not sure if the investment of capital resources is necessarily worth the time and trouble it takes to...
is described by Ovid as having unending youth, eternal boyhood: however, one of the points which Wilde is making is that Dorian is...
writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...
attractive young lady and Gwendolyns country counterpart, rounds out the cast. Not for a moment would we expect to find the sort o...
word be spoken that comes not from the heart" (Moliere I.i). As this opening argument to the play suggests, Molieres view of fun...