Comparing The Sphinx Without A Secret, And Savile's Crime

Mystery brings an author like Oscar Wilde to fame; who writes in themes such as, “The world's a stage, but the play is badly cast,” a spin off from Hamlet, and uses metaphors for life such as, “days break in beauty and set in storm,” found in “The Sphinx Without a Secret and Lord Savile’s Crime”. His prose, setting, characters, and themes, show his style of writing when comparing closely to each of the short story works. Oscar Wilde lived and published many of his works late into the 1800’s. During this time period, America was just beginning to become a fully developed nation, and Europe was a very large, respectable country. His stories take place at the present time that he was writing them, and he used what was considered modern day terms and references between Europe and America at the time to tell each story. Lord Arthur, in “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”, states the allusion that “Liberty was created during the French Revolution” to put into perspective the time period of the story. Every story has a European country setting. “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” takes place in France, “The Sphinx Without a Secret” takes place in London, and “The Canterville Ghost” takes place in small towns …show more content…
At the end of Lord Savile’s Crime, he tells the housewife that he owes all of his happiness to the cheiromantist, when in reality, he caused Lord Savile all of his problems and made it harder for him to be with his wife, which is indirectly referenced as “all of his happiness.” In The Sphinx Without a Secret, situational irony is shown when Lady Alroy just went to her private house to be in secret and to not draw attention to herself, when in reality, that caught her lover’s attention. Lastly, the Canterville ghost was in situational irony throughout the novel because the family that he was trying to scare ended up frightening him. He was traumatized more by the family than his ability to scare