Essays Tagged: "Oscar Wilde"

Human nature

ly affected by the environment;and is constantly changing due to the experiences of the individual. Oscar Wilde oncesaid "The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.Cha ...

(3 pages) 132 0 4.2 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde's, explores the role of deceit in the play

of Being Earnest is completely fanciful and has no relation to the real world, others maintain that Oscar Wilde's 'trivial comedy for serious people' does make significant comments about social class ...

(3 pages) 208 2 4.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Biography of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (real name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) was born onOctober 16th, 1854 in Dublin ... eensberry left a visiting card at Wilde's London club,the Albemarle, upon which he had written, 'To Oscar Wilde posing as a somdomite' (sic).Wilde sued him for libel but lost the case and was charged ...

(5 pages) 142 2 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age

s of Charles Dickens, the poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning, the dramatic plays of Oscar Wilde, the scientific discoveries of the Darwins, and the religious revolt of Newman all helpe ... rian novelists, Victorian dramatists attempted to present life realistically. The popular dramatist Oscar Wilde, wrote plays that dealt with social problems directly. In his masterpiece, The Importanc ...

(6 pages) 361 1 2.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (by Oscar Wilde) - brief plot outline - character analysis - critical evaluation

The Picture of Dorian Gray(Oscar Wilde)Plot OutlineThe story is about a handsome and eloquent young man named Dorian Gray. He h ... vil and egocentrically person, who thinks that beauty is the only value in life.Due to this aspect, Oscar Wilde maybe criticises the society with regard to the enormously overrating of someone's appea ...

(6 pages) 117 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A summer reading essay on the Picture of Dorian Gray

that jealousy is the root. Yet, at times there are legitimate repercussions for being different. Oscar Wilde, for example, was jailed for being a homosexual when he "came out of the closet." The i ...

(3 pages) 57 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Short synopsis and author biography followed by an analysis on the use of aestheticism in the novel.

The Picture of Dorian Gray was Oscar Wilde's first and only novel. It was written in 1890, when Wilde was thirty-five. He died in P ... de Lady Windemere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and A Woman of No Importance.He was born "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde". The extra names were taken from Irish folklore and given to h ... mes. http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPictureDorian41.asp. visited 12-15-02.Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890. Harper & Row Publishers. New York, New York.

(6 pages) 122 0 4.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Why the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" is still packing theaters today, even though it is over 100 years old.

lar?"The Importance of Being Earnest" was first performed in 1895. The year marked the beginning of Oscar Wilde's "disgrace". Lord Alfred Douglas's father, the Marquis of Queensbury, began his campaig ... ns that this enchanting play has lasted so long; it is because of the pure wit, humour and style of Oscar Wilde! He has succeeded in making a versatile play amusing from the first to the last word.A m ...

(5 pages) 100 0 4.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Wilde's Views on Women in The Importance of Being Earnest. This essay is my first draft on the topic of how women are viewed in this play.

"The Importance of Being Earnest" was written by the famous Irish author Oscar Wilde. The play represents Wilde´s late Victorian view of the aristocracy, marriage, wit ...

(4 pages) 205 3 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. This is a revamped essay and final copy I did for my ENG101. It talks about the portrayal of woem in the play.

Portrayal of Women inOscar Wilde's The Importance of Being EarnestByhitman99"The Importance of Being Earnest" was written ... of Being EarnestByhitman99"The Importance of Being Earnest" was written by the famous Irish author, Oscar Wilde. The play represents Wilde´s late Victorian view of the aristocracy, marriage, wit ... both imagined and loved a man who only had a name and no identity as well, Ernest.Works CitedWilde, Oscar. "The Importance of Being Earnest." The Harbrace Anthology of Literature. 3rd ed. Toronto, ON: ...

(4 pages) 202 3 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The Importance of Being Earnest." by Oscar Wilde.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, beyond any reasonable doubt, makes noteworthy comments about the Victorian era. In this ...

(2 pages) 139 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Oscar Wilde's, "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

In Oscar Wilde's, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde uses many historical concepts in his novel, three o ... vel was in fact inspired, if not a "spin off" off Robert Stevenson's novel: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Oscar Wilde's use of Shakespeare not only foreshadowed things to come, it also allowed a slow progre ... only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless" (Oscar Wilde, vii). Another example is, "The aestheticists were motivated as much by a contempt for b ...

(5 pages) 95 1 3.4 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The Important of Being Ernest" by Oscar Wilde.

The Important of Being Earnest is a comedy play by Oscar Wilde. This play is his final work before he passes away at 1900. It is set in the Victorian A ...

(4 pages) 79 0 2.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" and the hedonistic effect on the characters.

"Hedonism"By Jessica ShelbyOscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a prime example of hedonism, a movement in the late 1800' ... and blood and his once luminous beauty takes its place on the canvas.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, not only depicts the hedonistic ideals, but it also portrays why the movement cannot la ... om London, not able to show their face, or so ashamed that they resorted to taking their own lives. Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a prime example of hedonistic ideals because of the chara ...

(3 pages) 101 2 4.2 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde

rms of drama deal with the social and political issues of a particular society. In comedies such as Oscar Wilde's nineteenth century play, An Ideal Husband, the author often makes fun of such issues, ... a modern audience will easily interpret comments such as these in a much different manner than what Oscar Wilde intended.A modern audience will could easily misinterpret the society of this era to be ...

(6 pages) 69 1 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Literary critique of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

art, scandalous homoerotic bonds, and even the Anti-Christ himself have been said to be figured in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Critics have ranted and raved about the novel's supposed a ... main themes of Dorian Gray, the purpose and profound influence of art. In the preface of the novel, Oscar Wilde declares "All art is quite useless." Thus, one can argue that the only purpose of which ...

(7 pages) 158 0 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Essay discussing the validity of critics as well as Oscar Wilde in defense of his literary work "A Portrait of Dorian Gray."

could turn armies or simply stop the reading of a book. The remarkably erudite - himself a critic - Oscar Wilde, in a modernly unheard of manner, retorted to his critics. Using the columnist's weapon, ...

(3 pages) 50 1 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

'A short story tells us only one thing and that intensely' How far do you agree with his assertion.

ory' (Ernest Hemingway) which I believe does conform to Pritchett's claim, and 'The Selfish Giant' (Oscar Wilde) which does not. There are many themes in 'The Selfish Giant' (SG): religion, love and ...

(4 pages) 36 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Of Mice and Men's" literary merit

The quote noted by Oscar Wilde, "The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame ...

(4 pages) 49 0 2.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck