The Happy Prince is actually quite beautiful‚ and reads to me like something out of Arabian Nights. I was surprised by the tone and content‚ because it’s so starkly fixed on compassion and charity‚ morals and values I don’t normally associate with Wilde‚ and the end is dramatic and Biblical‚ but not so much as to make me roll my eyes. It was acceptable. The Nightingale and the Rose was terrible. And far too realistic. And also justified all the side-eyes I’ve always given the idea of love. It’s about
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet‚ novelist‚ author of short stories as well as playwright‚ and it was his comedies which made him famous. In spite of that‚ it looks like his works remain only a reflection of his great mind. He was always fascinated by the public - for his work he needed immediate reaction. Probably he was a better storyteller than writer. Nevertheless‚ Oscar Wilde was a very talented student‚ with great memory. He studied at Trinity College in Dublin and later on in Oxford
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House" by Ibsen "Death of a Salesman" and "A Doll’s House" are two plays that were written in different centuries. In these plays‚ among other things‚ is presented the place that women hold in the family‚ as well as in the society. Although in many aspects‚ the two protagonists of the plays‚ Linda and Nora respectively‚ appear to have things in common‚ at the same time they are very different‚ since Nora seems to be more modern and liberal than Linda‚ which is ironic given the fact that Ibsen wrote
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the guilty one” (Ibsen 216). Although he attempts to apologize later on‚ it is just how Mahaffey states it “is revealed as more of a placation than a commitment” (Mahaffey 59). It is during these moments that Nora realizes that her husband care more about the norms of society and the appearance that he follows those
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A Dolls House After reading "A Dolls House" by Henrik Ibsen‚ I felt that I had a better grasp of the relationship between men and women in the Victorian era. The man was all- powerful in this time; women were well in the background‚ subservient and dependent on men in all areas of her life. It was surprising to me that women were not allowed to sign legal documents‚ such a personal loan without a man’s signature. Total dependency had to be a tough pill to swallow for strong willed women. I am sure
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“Just the tourist sites and the atmosphere‚” Wilde said. Performers like Dwaino can work outside the Café in their free time to not only collect donations‚ but to also contribute to the atmosphere Hack Bartholomew‚ a trumpeter‚ describes as “relaxing and entertaining”. Bartholomew plays his trumpet
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marriages don’t come without infidelity. The matter is swept swiftly under the rug with a succession of euphemisms to superficially justify the behaviour‚ followed immediately by a discussion about food‚ as if the topics are of equal importance. Thus‚ Wilde satirises Victorian society’s preoccupation with surface manifestations of
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In Where She Went by Gayle Forman Adam Wilde is the famous rockstar with a supermodel girlfriend lives the life people would die for‚ there is just one thing missing‚her. Three years ago his girlfriend Mia was in a car accident all of her family died but Adam was there all the way through her recovery. Then Adam´s world crashed into a million pieces when she broke up with him and pursued her dream of being a professional cellist. Fast forward three years and Adam is struggling with his panic attacks
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A Doll House written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879‚ maps out the revelation of our protagonist‚ Nora Helmer‚ who had previously lived a domestic‚ yet unexamined life. Both her father and her husband‚ Torvald Helmer‚ have had complete control over her all her life. This makes her re-evaluate who she really is and even makes her question her own marriage. In order for her husband to convalesce from his illness‚ the doctors suggested it was essential to travel south to Italy. Nora then felt inclined to borrow
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Henrik Ibsen’s play "Rosmersholm" tackles the issue of the oppression of new and radical ideas‚ liberal thought‚ and self-knowledge. The forces of oppression at work in the play range from organized political forces to interior motivations that distract one from completely realizing self-actualization. A battle is taking place between those who want to change the course of future events and establish a new order and those who wish to maintain the comfortable status quo while squelching any attempt
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