OSCAR WILDE’S GOTHIC: THE PRESENCE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts with a Major in English in the College of Graduate Studies University of Idaho by Peter Stegner August 2007 Major Professor: Gary Williams‚ Ph.D. ii AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT THESIS This thesis of Peter Stegner‚ submitted for the degree of Master of Arts with a major in English and titled “Oscar
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by motifs and the morals of the characters. There are many characters that show opposite moral believes‚ allowing the reader to judge the deterioration of a character’s virtues by comparison. This novel has also lead to many personal issues for Oscar Wilde as it was used against him in a trial for homosexuality. There are many theories to the main theme of the novel. It is viewed as a gothic entertainment novel‚ which could be a cautionary tale or a philosophical treatise. However‚ the main consistency
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heartless man is contained within the pages of The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde. This actress was Sibyl Vane and the heartless man was the once innocent Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde uses pathos‚ appealing to an audience’s emotions‚ to convince or convey a message. Oscar Wilde introduces Sibyl Vane as a poor indentured servant and the cruelty of Dorian Gray to make his audience more sympathetic to Sibyl Vane. Oscar Wilde’s appeal to pathos in chapters 5 and 7 fail to succeed because Sibyl Vane
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English Essay Oscar Wilde’s novel is an extended metaphor that reinforces his idea that ‘There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book’. In The Picture Of Dorian Gray his view is very contradictory. His theory is reinforced through the changes in Dorian’s personality‚ the ‘yellow book’ A Rebours (‘against nature’) which was one of the most important novels during the decadence period‚ which was given to Dorian Gray by Lord Henry. Consequently‚ leading us to the corruption of Dorian Gray and
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Corruption Through Aestheticism The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel‚ the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After conversing with cynical Lord Henry Wotton‚ Dorian makes a wish which dreadfully affects his life forever. "If it were I who was to be always young‚ and the picture that was to grow old! For that I would give everything
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The Importance of Being Earnest‚ written by Oscar Wilde‚ is a play that was first performed and published in the late nineteenth century. This play was written during the decline of the Victorian era and portrays the lifestyle of the era’s upper class in the author’s amusing point of view. While this was the era of supreme manners‚ well-educated men‚ and the utmost marriageable women‚ Oscar Wilde depicts his characters in a more truthful manner by revealing their contradicting statements and dishonest
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Wilde also critiqued the gender roles of the time period. His character‚ Lady Bracknell‚ has been played on many occasion by male actors because of her strong and brash behaviors. She is seen as an immovable obstacle for Jack to overcome. Jack at one point describes her as‚ “Never met such a Gorgon… In any case‚ she is a monster‚ without being a myth‚”(Wilde Earnest 1). The Lady is a monster‚ a repulsive creature. She is not the prim‚ delicate woman of Victorian England. During this time period
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The Importance of Being Earnest‚ composed by Oscar Wilde is a comedic screenplay set in the nineteenth century. Although the theme of the screenplay is comedic‚ the script does discuss some of the common issues that occurred during that time. Oscar Wilde portrays the concept of marriage‚ earnestness and …. Throughout his script. Marriage is one of the main messages portrayed in the dialogue‚ being mentioned numerous times throughout The Importance of Being Earnest. The topic of marriage is used to
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A Dublin born Oscar Wilde was destined for greatness. Oscar Wilde was an ingenious play-writer and novelist of his time. One play that Oscar Wilde created though stood out amongst the rest of his work. This particular play would question a lot of morals and would also make a mockery out of the high prestigious people of the Victorian society‚ that play was entitled “The Importance of Being Earnest”. In Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest”‚ Wilde uses comical satire to describe the high
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| |Abstract： Oscar Fingal O ’Flahertie Wills Wilde is a world-renowned master of aestheticism‚ whose masterpiece The Importance | |of Being Earnest was regarded as a great success in the field of aestheticism. From my point of view‚ in this work‚ Wilde not | |only explains his philosophy of aestheticism: art is above life‚ but also shows his critically realistic concern for the
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