Oscar Wilde

Dame Judi Dench “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a British comedy written by Oscar Wilde, which was transposed into a movie by the director Oliver Parker in 2002. Lady Augusta Bracknell is a dominant character which has a profound impact in both play and movie; her role is essential. She symbolizes the stereotypical upper-class woman during the Victorian Age. She is the tool through which Oscar Wilde wanted to criticize and ridicule the conservative and restrictive rules and…

In the passage from Act II “The Importance of Being Ernest” by Oscar Wilde, Wilde uses many sources of humor to show the comical way in which Ernest and Cecily meet for the very first time. Starting with a confusing engagement and ending with a phony name, this encounter took a different turn than expected as it developed. The first source of humor used in “The Importance of Being Ernest” is when Cecily has announced to Ernest, also known as Algernon, that they are engaged. Ernest has never met…

listening. In “Turkish government censors classic literary works,” the author explains how the Turkish government is trying to create a totally Islamic environment for their people. They are censoring famous works by many well-known authors such as Oscar Wilde and John Steinback. The government believes that literature could teach the population ideas from western religions like Christianity and Judaism. Similarly, in the article “China's Great Firewall is Harming Innovation, Scholars Say,”…

In assessing a performance, I approached it much as an adjudicator for a University Interscholastic League One Act Play contest is charged. I begin by reading the play, which I was vaguely familiar with and possibly considering as an option for my students. I find when I choose a play (especially for contest) I spend more time with it, in pre-production researching and preparing, and it is usually a longer season with the contest play. (Most shows go up in four to six weeks and run for one to…

Both Oscar Wilde and Christina Rossetti present the attractiveness of wrongdoing and fear of its consequences in both similar and different ways within An Ideal Husband and Rossetti’s Selected Poems. Rossetti and Wilde consider the attractiveness of wrongdoing under different themes. Wilde looks more at a political side of wrongdoing, whereas Rossetti considers wrongdoing in a religious sense. Mrs. Cheveley is a character that is very attracted to wrongdoing; this is evident in An Ideal…

Oscar Wilde’s quote of “It is through disobedience that progress has been made” profoundly relates to the quote “When life puts you in tough situations, don't say “why me” say “try me””. Wilde states that disobedience creates opportunity for social progress; through the multitude of impactful nonviolence protest leaders like David Henry Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi, it is crystalline that these memorable figures inspired change through civil disobedience. I firmly agree in…

distinction arising from excellence.” (n.2). The poem Lanval by Marie de France and the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde involves the noble class and the manner in which they conduct themselves. The upper class in these two texts may fit the definition above, but they do not uphold the depiction of generosity, honor,…

Both the narratives of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, incorporate the theme of the inventory of hazardous knowledge and the detrimental consequence of manipulation. In the novel of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein becomes fascinated by the creation of life and studies the human body of its anatomy and its decay. After 3 years of rigorous studying at a college located in Ingolstadt, Victor Frankenstein familiarizes himself with the occult sciences…

seduction, moral corruption, and eventual demise, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written. Although the novel does not contain any explicit homosexuality, leaving the novel to be a suggestive work of such a theme, Wilde, being queer-coded himself, is able to use his work as an outlet to validate the identity of homosexual individuals. By including homosexual subtext, Wilde promotes the notion that people should not…

the obsession of literature and philosophy influence a man’s lifestyle. Philosophy and literature should be learned from, but with reason, adapted into our lives. Through the use of allusions,paradoxes, and motifs, The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury emphasize the statement. The paradoxes in both novels evoke thought in the characters, influencing their views. In The Picture Of…