October 16, 1854, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Sir William Wilde, who worked as an optometrist, a renowned philanthropist and gifted writer, who wrote books on archaeology and folklore. Mothered by poet and journalist, Jane Francesca Elgee who wrote patriotic Irish verses under the name "Speranza". She taught Wilde that he could pretty much do whatever he wanted to and the truth really was not that important when a person really wanted to entertain someone. Wilde was a bright and bookish child. He attended the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen where he excelled in Greek and Roman studies. Upon his graduation in 1874, Wilde received the Demyship scholarship for further study at Magdalen College in Oxford.
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Living for pleasure in a society that was pessimistic about change did not seem to face Wilde as he wrote his novel that was too homo to be published the first two times but Dorian Gray, to a great extent is able to embody the qualities of the typical aesthetic and dandy. Throughout the novel Wild shows the growth of Dorian’s addiction to have the most expensive things that are beautiful to the eye and admirable to the people. He never truly understand the consequences of his actions because he chooses not to take responsibility in fear of discovering his true self. ”If one does not talk about such thing it has never happened, it is simply an expression that gives reality to things”(wilde 107). This aspect of Dorian does not just represent a Dandy’s luck of reality, but also represents Oscar Wilde’s attitude toward Life. Although Wilde was pretty famous for his poems, he allows his homoerotic affairs become public fourteen years after his marriage and the birth of his two sons. Like Dorian and any typical Dandy he fails to realize the extent of his actions, but in Wilde's case he lost his family and
Living for pleasure in a society that was pessimistic about change did not seem to face Wilde as he wrote his novel that was too homo to be published the first two times but Dorian Gray, to a great extent is able to embody the qualities of the typical aesthetic and dandy. Throughout the novel Wild shows the growth of Dorian’s addiction to have the most expensive things that are beautiful to the eye and admirable to the people. He never truly understand the consequences of his actions because he chooses not to take responsibility in fear of discovering his true self. ”If one does not talk about such thing it has never happened, it is simply an expression that gives reality to things”(wilde 107). This aspect of Dorian does not just represent a Dandy’s luck of reality, but also represents Oscar Wilde’s attitude toward Life. Although Wilde was pretty famous for his poems, he allows his homoerotic affairs become public fourteen years after his marriage and the birth of his two sons. Like Dorian and any typical Dandy he fails to realize the extent of his actions, but in Wilde's case he lost his family and