Oscar Wilde, born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Willa Wilde is an Irish author, playwright, and poet. Wilde was born October 16th, 1854 in Dublin Ireland. Wilde is well known for his infamous arrest and imprisonment over his sexuality. Throughout Oscar Wilde’s career, he has produced several great plays that were considered witty, highly satirical comedies of manners that contained dark and serious undertones. Many of his plays were based on situations that really happened in Wilde’s life, since he liked to find humor in his dramatic life. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, each character goes through their own type of “soul-searching” trying to figure out how they can get ahead within …show more content…
He created the idea that socialism and communism is the best way to live within a society. Marx discusses that living in a classes society with equal right for every individual is the “right way” to live. The Marxist theory directly opposes Capitalism, where their are individual opportunities where one makes their own wealth. When Karl Marx created the theory of Marxism in 1848, he created the idea of “Communist Manifesto.” This idea focuses on the history of society and the history of class struggle, that the struggle of upper and lower class is the root of everything. Marxism also has an underlying base called Economics, which has to deal with culture and how culture is the super structure of the Marxist theory. Ultimately, the goal for Marxism is to live in a classes society where everyone has equal rights, and equal opportunities. Marxism is an analysis that focuses on class relations and societal conflict. “The Marxist Theory is driven by the dynamic confrontation of a variety of perspectives, which have induced the constant reworking of its conceptual premises. Its historical development has nevertheless suffered from a (sometimes self-) attributed association with Soviet socialism, and from the theoretical shortcomings of hegemonic Marxist approaches- that is, ‘economism,’ historical determinism, structural-functionalism, and an incipient positivism” (Tsolakis). The idea behind the Marxist theory is to move one away from Capitalism, and tries to open one up to the idea of a classless