Oscar Wilde

seem to disregard disobedience as any malicious action or words. There are cases where disobedience has harmed individuals or society, however, there are other cases where disobedience has changed us as a society for the greater good. Irish author Wilde claimed, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress is made…” Wilde’s claim is valid because acts of disobedience such as the American Revolution, the Women’s…

moral and proper; however, in the reality, the fact of being seen as moral by other members of society overshadowed being moral itself. Oscar Wilde in his “Importance of Being Ernest” satirizes the intent of people to be loved and admired for what they are not, “You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life” (Wilde 6). For Cecily and Gwendolen it is absolutely non-important who their admirers are actually as people, what they do, and what they…

Not knowing any better because I am only given a snippet from Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan, I have to think that is a revolutionary feminist play. Wilde reveals the silent hardships of women in the most mundane way: letting people talk in a room. The scene begins with everybody (Lord Darlington, Duchess of Berwick, and Lady Windermere) meeting each other. The interesting aspect to this beginning is that the Duchess of Berwick, not Lord Darlington controls the room's conversation.…

specifically, Wilde’s adjectival usage of color is not natural or realistic but rather impressionistic. For example, the poem begins likewise: “The Thames of nocturne of blue and gold/ Changed to a harmony in grey” (1-2). From the very beginning, Wilde alludes to the “Nocturnes in Blue and Gold”, a painting by Whistler, giving his readers a direct visual guide to be mindful of (1687). Even to those who do not know what the painting looks like, the colors blue and gold, connoted with richness and…

The social hierarchy does not provide a way for those on the bottom to escape the bottom. They remain at the lowest of the low purely because there is profit to be made from the suffering of the inferior. The psychologist John C Turner examined the consistency of one’s identity in a group and its inability to change: “It is the awareness of the existence of categories which generates the in-group response, not necessarily past hostility nor objective conflict. Identity within a group is either…

People say love is a feeling that one could describe in many ways. A person can love someone for his/her looks, personality, sense of humor, how fit he/she is--but when does his name become a factor of if one loves another or not? Writer Owen Wilson claims “Love is the soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another.” One does not typically prefer to date someone with the name John, rather than Dylan, for example. Usually, a person will say a name does not matter when it comes to loving…

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ both divulge into the theme of faith and doubt. The presentation of faith differs respectively between the authors in alignment with their contrasting perceptions of nihilism versus Christian divinity, as does the use of doubt as a manipulative device in opposition to the intrinsic doubt of nature itself. Doubt and faith are primarily introduced in two different lights. Stoker adopts the convention of the supernatural to…

and although consequences may follow a disobedient act, the persons actions could hypothetically enact revision in their life. Whether the variation is positive or negative, depends on how that individual executes their rebellion. Irish author, Oscar Wilde, claims that rebelling promotes progress socially. He attributes the ability to rebel to being a human trait of much a value. I agree with Wilde’s claim because taking a look through history, clearly shows that it has been disobedience,…

Faustus, the character who sold his soul to the devil for promises of infinite amounts of material wealth. Or in As I Lay dying, the character Anse is obsessed with obtaining his new dentures even after all the trouble his family went through. Oscar Wilde is a big believer in society’s obsession in material, useless thing instead of things of importance. Outside of literature the signs of material wealth taking over the world are everywhere. Money drives the world in the society we live in, and…

Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." His musing crossed my mind when I read the first book in J. E. Plemons Last Light Falling series, The Covenant. Since I read the Covenant I’ve watched news story after news story unfold on the TV: violence, mass killings, hateful words spewing out of people’s mouths, people believing they are superior for one reason or another over others, no respect for humanity and life, and I’ll admit I am unnerved by what I see…