Being Earnest Among Oscar Wilde’s varied works‚ a prominent place has been assumed by a notoriously humorous play The Importance of Being Earnest. Such has been the play’s popularity to this day that countless efforts have been retaken so as to adapting it for modern age due to its scintillating language and the author’s surpassing skill at creating immortal characters. In the attempt to spell out the importance of characterization we shall look at how Oscar Wilde carefully masters each marionette
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alluding to the same ideas of the upper class of the Victorian Age as Oscar Wilde does in The Importance of Being Earnest. Through Lady Bracknell‚ a prestigious member of the upper class in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Wilde displays his views on the morals and values of the Victorian society. Lady Bracknell is the epitome of the hypocritical‚ greedy‚ and insincere wealthy population in England from the time of 1832-1901. Oscar Wilde demonstrates these characteristics in instances such as Lady Bracknell’s
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The selfish giant Oscar wilde ( 1854 – 1900) was born in Dublin‚ Ireland‚ the second of three childrend born to a well-known medical specialist and a prominent poetess‚ prose and nationalist under the pseudonym Speranza. In 1871 he enterrd Trinity College‚ then he went on to study the classics at Magdalen College‚ Oxford‚ England from 1874-1878. In 1881 he made a long tour of Americaa to deliver lectures on aesthetics. When thr Aesthetic Movement became popular‚ Oscar Wilde earned a reputation
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is a subject that has attracted the attention and interest of some of our greatest minds‚ from Aristotle and Kant to Freud. It has also fascinated and played an important part in the work of some of the greatest writers such as Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. However‚ curiously‚ after thousands of years spent trying to understand humour‚ there is still a great deal of controversy about what humour is or why something is funny. There are some interesting theories‚ though‚ on this matter. For Aristotle
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and the Middle east theatre the first playwrite Oscar Wilde and his work “the importance of being earnest”.the second one is Tawfik El Hakim and his famous play”the fate of cockroaches”. The Importance of Being Earnest was written by playwright / novelist / poet and all around literary genius‚ Oscar Wilde (Dublin 1854- Paris 1900) The true name of Oscar Wilde was Oscar Fingall O´Flahertie Wills Wilde‚ he was the son of the surgeon William Wilde and the writer Jane Francesca Elgee‚ he went to
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10 11 11 13 15 16 18 20 1 Introduction “The telling of beautiful untrue things‚ is the proper aim of Art” (Oscar Wilde). Oscar Wilde is as famous for his wit and legendary quotes as he is for his texts. In his only novel‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ Wilde explores the practical reality of a hedonistic‚ pleasure-seeking lifestyle without boundaries. During the 1890s‚ Oscar Wilde was one of the leaders of the so called aesthetic movement in England. In his novel he puts this theory into practice
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How does Oscar Wilde make Hester and Mrs Arbuthnot contrasting characters? Oscar Wilde has many characters through ‘A Woman of No Importance’ that have contrasting personalities and backgrounds‚ but the characters with a clear‚ most definite contrast are Hester and Mrs Arbuthnot. Mrs Arbuthnot is known to the readers of the play and the characters in the play as a ‘fallen woman’. She has run off with at least two men whilst married and has now developed a reputation with the rest of the community
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The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ written by Oscar Wilde‚ begins with an introduction of witty sayings discussing the question of if art has any use; and if it does‚ what are its implications. Likewise‚ "My Last Duchess"‚ written by Oscar Wilde’s Victorian contemporary Robert Browning‚ also delves into these provocative questions. Both The Picture of Dorian Gray and "My Last Duchess" explore the question of whether art has a moral element or whether it is only a purely meaningless application of the
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and Truth of an Artist Oscar Wilde’s definition of an artist is the creator of beautiful things to reveal art and to conceal the artist. In the novel‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ it is controversial whether or not Lord Henry and Dorian Gray are true artists or not. Both are creators of beautiful things and revealers of art‚ yet blunder out from the artistic world and come to the real world. Overall‚ Lord Henry and Dorian Gray do fit the definitions as artists in Oscar Wilde’s perspective by having
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This poem “Impression De Voyage” by Oscar Wilde is in the sonnet form ABBA-ACCA-DEFFED. All in all though it really is just about the voyage‚ the poet took everything into account. The 14 lines stanza of the poem is composed in iambic pentameter and with a complex rhyme scheme. The Poet uses sounds in the sestet at the end. The imagery is nice (sapphire/opal/red sun upon the sea). There is the imagery of nature‚ sea and ship. Wilde presents ship imagery through various images like; steep prow‚ hoisted
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