romantyczne-mysli: Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde on the Husbands of Beautiful Women

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The "Unholy" Trinity: Homoeroticism, Catholicism, and Oscar Wilde. This paper examines two bodies of work by Oscar Wilde deemed antithetical to one another by literary scholars. Through a comparative analysis of The Picture of Dorian Gray, said to represent Wilde’s homosexuality, and De Profundis, said to represent his spirituality, I endeavor to reconcile Wilde’s seemingly opposing halves and illuminate the truth of his identity. I hypothesize that The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis do not represent conflicting versions of Wilde, but rather, serve as a continuum that charts Wilde’s course as he grapples with his sexuality and relationship to Catholicism. Oscar Wilde’s spiritual si…

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Women as figures of disorder in the plays of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde's plays on upper-class Victorian society are set apart from contemporary drama both by their wit and their reappraisal of conventions, particularly in dealing with transgressive women. The fallen woman's prominence in popular culture and the stage during a period of intense suffragism attests to woman's role as a touchstone of moral stability, contemporary plays viewing deviant women as threats to a man's world. Wilde mocks society's confinement of women, fallen or not, into prescribed roles and undercuts customary morality but fears self-determining women's disruptive power. A tool of perceiving this ambivalence is the s…

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic horror novel by Irish author Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, while the novel-length version was published in April 1891. As the only novel written by Wilde, it is widely regarded as a classic of both Gothic and English literature, having been adapted many times for films, stage, plays, and other forms of art performances. The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton an…