Oscar Wilde

setup their own demise, by trying to manipulate love as if it were a puppet. This produces a whirl wind of events that lead to failure, and in one case death. In the texts the Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, and The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde; the idealistic view of love is flawed with misconceptions of how true love is attained, false…

It is in the nature of man to argue, fight, and disobey. Throughout time disobedience led to social change and social progress such as: Rosa Parks’ movement, Gandhi's peace movement, and civil rights movements. It is through this sort of rebellion against government, conventional ideal, and oher people, that progress is able to be made and people are able to improve. Disobedience from humans is a key factor in furthering mankind and is invaluable to social progress. Disobedience challenges…

you must help yourself too. If there is a moment to follow your passion and do something you care about, that moment is right now! Famous quotes about the importance of being yourself “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” ― Judy Garland “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at…

Around 8000 BC, hunter-gatherers first settled into Ireland. These settlers came from different parts of Europe and Great Britain. For thousands of years, these settlers lived by fishing and hunting until around 4000BC. The settlers gave up their hunter-gatherer way of life and began farming. Sometime around 3000 BC, the offspring of the first settlers of Ireland built monuments and burial mounts such as the most famous Newgrange. Early society in Ireland was pagan. This remained for thousands…

2) ''This arrogance spoilt all their skill in my eyes, so that, putting myself in the place of the oracle, and asking myself whether I would rather be what I am or what they are, know what they know, or know that I know nothing, I very readily answered, for myself and the god, that I had rather remain as I am.'' – Rousseau (pg 3 pr 3). Up until 1799, George Washington was the president of the United States, and today Kanye West and Donald Trump are running for presidency; it is the time and age…

Raimut was extradited to the Ormish Empire and executed. Mara was institutionalised. The twins were left rudderless, alone in Raimut's great townhouse, still filled with evidence of the crimes they'd been accomplice to. For years, the twins existed in a sort of haze, recovering from Raimut's brutality and from the aftereffects of the awful things they had done. They remained secretive and private and did not cultivate any significant friendships during this time, being afraid of being…

identities, and beliefs with world-shattering activities such as doubt, experimentation, inquiry, and individualism. It took place between 1900 and 1950, and reached its peak in the 1920s. There are famous authors from the modernism age, like Oscar Wilde who has written "The Importance of Being Earnest", T. S. Eliot with his famous work "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and James Joyce writing "Ulysses.” All three writers disrupt the relationship through their use of themes, language and…

the United Kingdom, it ruled at its peak about a quarter of the world that may be one of the many reasons London still is a beloved setting for a novel or a short story. Distinguished writers such as Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf all have an allurement of this city. As Samuel Johnson said: When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. However, things are seldom what they seem, and some writers…

1. In Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being, Wilde plays on the concept of dualism and the concept of double meaning. The dualistic theme is also present in the motif of food, where food or the act of eating is seen as more than just for consumption or entertainment more particularly since food is always centered around a conflict. Thus food can be seen as a tool of distraction from the conflicts the characters find themselves in more specifically Algernon where food is seen as an escape…

Saki, in another name Hector Hugh Munro was a British writer and master of the short story form and his works were often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. He influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Caroll and Rudyard Kipling and also he influenced to the other authors, such as A. A. Milne and P. G. Wodehouse. Saki was Munro’s pen name and inspiration of his pen name came from the boyish cupbearer in “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Edward FitzGerald. However, Saki may refer to a South American…