One theme common across many of Wilde 's works is the antagonism between the artist and bourgeois society. He followed many of the French artists and writers of the "symbolist" or "decadent" movement in believing that a wide range of sensual and other experiences can contribute to artistic creation, and no aspect of human experience is remote from art, but rather all experiences from the most elevated to the most squalid are legitimate subjects for the arts; what distinguishes art from that which is not art is aesthetic quality.
Many of Wilde 's works have veiled references to homoeroticism. After he was released from Reading Gaol, and converted to Roman Catholicism, he did write works which engage more strongly with religion than his early …show more content…
Oscar Wilde 's is a curious modernism where the category of the neo-romantic is very much at work. His humour is also a typically Irish humour. As far as Wilde 's plays are concerned, his major style is one of social satire, critiquing social issues, the practice of false manners and hypocrisy, the fraudulent identities, the relation and rapport of the sexes, the social conventions of love and so on. If we look at Importance of Being Ernest, the theme of a fluid unfixed identity, the critique of a Platonic myth of love and bond, the pattern of poetic justice in the world and the issues of heredity in personality development--these are the issues handled in the text. In many of Wilde 's stories, he uses the parabolic and fabular tropes as in The Happy Prince and The Rose and Nightingale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde 's only novel is an autobiographical text which apart from other things, deals with his problematic sexuality and …show more content…
He eventually lost everything he owned when his assets were seized by the government after his imprisonment. This work also show Wilde 's high preoccupation with the topic of "consequences". The characters of Jack (Ernest), his friend Algernon Moncrief, Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton, Lord Goring and Lord Darlington are all excessive individuals who are always chased by the consequences of their actions. However, Prior to his conviction, Wilde had been accused of corrupting young men. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the character of Lord Henry is Wilde 's mouthpiece, spreading Wilde 's own ideas about the "modern hedonism" that corrupts Dorian into horrid acts that reflect in his painted image. Similarly, the dandies Moncrieff, Darlington and Wotton clearly are amoral therefore they have either already corrupted someone or will corrupt someone
Many of Wilde 's works have veiled references to homoeroticism. After he was released from Reading Gaol, and converted to Roman Catholicism, he did write works which engage more strongly with religion than his early …show more content…
Oscar Wilde 's is a curious modernism where the category of the neo-romantic is very much at work. His humour is also a typically Irish humour. As far as Wilde 's plays are concerned, his major style is one of social satire, critiquing social issues, the practice of false manners and hypocrisy, the fraudulent identities, the relation and rapport of the sexes, the social conventions of love and so on. If we look at Importance of Being Ernest, the theme of a fluid unfixed identity, the critique of a Platonic myth of love and bond, the pattern of poetic justice in the world and the issues of heredity in personality development--these are the issues handled in the text. In many of Wilde 's stories, he uses the parabolic and fabular tropes as in The Happy Prince and The Rose and Nightingale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde 's only novel is an autobiographical text which apart from other things, deals with his problematic sexuality and …show more content…
He eventually lost everything he owned when his assets were seized by the government after his imprisonment. This work also show Wilde 's high preoccupation with the topic of "consequences". The characters of Jack (Ernest), his friend Algernon Moncrief, Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton, Lord Goring and Lord Darlington are all excessive individuals who are always chased by the consequences of their actions. However, Prior to his conviction, Wilde had been accused of corrupting young men. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the character of Lord Henry is Wilde 's mouthpiece, spreading Wilde 's own ideas about the "modern hedonism" that corrupts Dorian into horrid acts that reflect in his painted image. Similarly, the dandies Moncrieff, Darlington and Wotton clearly are amoral therefore they have either already corrupted someone or will corrupt someone