Category: Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s Pursuit of Aestheticism When I was young, I read Andersen’s fairy tales. When I grew up, I read Wilde. Oscar Wilde — the happy prince, the nightingale and the rose… As the fairy tale with the most death images, it tells you the darkness of human nature and the cruelty, lightness and romance…

Analysis Connection Between Basil and Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was born in late 19 th century in reign of Victorian era. He was an educated and intelligent man with knowledge of French and German. He was deeply interested in the philosophy of aestheticism when he studied at Oxford. In this well known and controversial novel,…

Oscar Wildes Aesthetic Theory in ‘De Profundis’ Composed in January through March of 1897 in Reading Prison, Berkshire, De Profundis is a letter of revelation of all that is feeblest in the writer. Written by Oscar Wilde addressing his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, or, Bosie, the title of the eighty-page letter translates from Latin to…

Salome’: Nature Of Aestheticism in the Play Of the many instances of conflict in Oscar Wildes decadent play Salomé, it would at first appear that the conflict between Salomé and her mother, Herodias, is downplayed, if not entirely absent from the plays primary sources of tension. However, considering the plays many differences (i.e. clashes) between…