Kim Wilde

Oscar wilde is known as a poet, as he should be. But he has written a novel and some short stories. His novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray. One of his most famous short stories is The Canterville ghost. He puts all of his effort into his work. In order to undernstand why he writes what he does, we have to dig up his past. We have to look into his life. Oscar Fingal O 'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. William Wilde , who was his father, was a famous…

ambiguous interpretations. In truth, a monster signifies the compilation of human fears. Beneath the exterior, the true monster lies within a person’s soul. In both Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray, both authors, Mary Shelley and Oscar Wilde, use their novels to express the fallacy of external appearances and the corruption of human…

Before meeting Lord Henry, Dorian Gray was not worried about aging or even his own beauty. Wilde writes, “The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before . . . They [compliments] had not influenced his nature. Then had come Lord Henry Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning of its…

In the novel, Oscar Wilde expresses his understanding of the relation between everyday life and art in two obvious metaphors: Dorian Gray as the real life and his portrait as the art. In Wilde’s view, art should derive from real life, and thus be the reflection of it, however…

The Latin-derived term horror vacui translates to “fear of emptiness.” Within literature, the utilization of horror vacui elucidates the human desire to maintain a grasp on the material world in times of adversity or turbulence. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, this fear of existential emptiness is manifested into the characters’ own materialist strategies to cope with it. Whether it be through the accumulation of…

It could be said that guilt is one of the most powerful emotions a person can feel. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the character Arthur Dimmesdale experiences the extremes of this emotion. Dimmesdale has an obsession with keeping a clean public image, but falls victim to sin which leads to a consequence of suppressing all feelings of guilt, affecting his mental and physical health. This psychoanalysis of Dimmesdale will evaluate why he should confess to his sin and the benefits…

Michelle Watts 10-22-2017 English Literature since 1800 Second Essay Assignment The Layers of “Goblin Market” Does great art make you feel or make you think? John Ruskin and Walter Pater have different approaches when it comes to art appreciation. The argument by Ruskin is that great art is “received by a higher faculty of the mind” and Pater is convinced that art “is the aim of the true student of aesthetics”. Not only are both schools of thought are correct but must…

the self-realizing individual (Castle 665). The newly-formed individual returns from his journey as a master rhetorician, reconciling with his fractured self when he realizes his internalization of “fractured discourse in the world” (Castle 666). Wilde explores a world in which the protagonist reaches his ultimate goal effortlessly under the influence of others, effectively avoiding the arduous journey and discovery of self in a traditional bildungsroman. In the protagonist’ avoidance of…

of his corruptive nature in order to experiment on who might implement these ideas into action because he is not willing to try them himself by stating, “You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.” (Wilde 4). The deeper significance behind this statement is that he’s afraid to do wrong; however, he feels the need to influence others in order to entertain himself with the things he would not do. In my opinion, Lord Henry does not deliberately…

In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Machiavelli’s The Prince, deception is a tool that one uses to gain a personal advantage. Despite the negative connotation that is typically associated with deception, Twelfth Night and The Prince demonstrate how deception can bring a positive outcome. If one employs a deceptive appearance under necessary circumstances, the end result must be justifiable, even when a majority of people are willingly deceived. Characterized by her beauty and resourcefulness,…