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Oscar Wilde
In this question, we are asked "to what extent" Wilde's claims are valid. Based on the examples of the readings you provided, it would appear that Wilde's claims are valid only to some extent....
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Oscar Wilde
In short, the title "The Remarkable Rocket" illustrates the self-importance and distorted view of reality that the rocket himself embodies. (He's a plain old rocket, keep in mind, just a stick that...
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Oscar Wilde
When the nightingale hears the boy speaking of his need for a red rose, she immediately decides to help him. First of all, she flies to the centre of the grass plot to a rose tree. She asks the...
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Oscar Wilde
The industrial revolution has widened the gap between the rich and the poor like never before in the Victorian era (1830-1900). The literature of the time reflected the growing disparity in the...
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Oscar Wilde
The nightingale describes the student who needs the red rose for his "true love" as follows: His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the rose of his desire; but passion...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde uses his short story "The Nightingale and the Rose" to satirize Romanticism. Literature of the Romantic period focused on the individual and placed value in intense emotions above...
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Oscar Wilde
Wilde thinks of "individualism" in a way quite different from that of extreme capitalists such as Ayn Rand or social Darwinists such as Herbert Spencer. He is mainly concerned with the flourishing...
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Oscar Wilde
Among many themes that are interconnected in "The Nightingale and the Rose", love is the universal topic. This main theme is explored through other -themes such as self-sacrifice and altruism. The...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde often seems frivolous to the extreme, and readers who identify him as such would not be entirely wrong. However, this frivolity and apparent carelessness actually point to more serious...
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Oscar Wilde
The rising action in the story consists of the swallow helping the the Happy Prince to do good for his people. During his life, the Prince never ventured from his palace and had no idea that the...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose" is a short story, written almost in the form of a parable, about a student who is in love with a young woman, the daughter of a professor, and a...
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Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince is one of the stories in The Happy Prince and Other Tales collection by Oscar Wilde. It is indeed a story based on love and humanity. Basically, the love of the prince for his...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince" is a satire commenting on social class distinctions and the wastefulness and selfishness of the upper class, particularly the nobility. The story...
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Oscar Wilde
One way to read the story is as a critique of capitalism and the class structure. The people the Happy Prince tries to help are representative of particular segments of late Victorian society;...
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Oscar Wilde
It can be said that Oscar Wilde used his short story "The Nightingale and the Rose" to satirize romantic views held by Victorian society, views that were carried over from the Romantic era. The...
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Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince was first published in May 1888. It is the story of a swallow that makes friends with the Happy Prince. The Happy Prince is a golden statue that stands in town. Everyone thinks he...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Through Lord Henry Wotton, a main character in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde displays a wit and penchant for masterful dialogue that are equalled by few. Wotton's hedonistic ideology and...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray there is an added tendency to correlate the East End of London, a place where anything goes, to people who completely detour from Wilde's idea of aesthetic. As the...
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Oscar Wilde
Influencing and manipulation are essential pivotal actions in this novel. Using Lord Henry as the chief manipulator, Wilde makes Dorian Gray the pawn of the elder man's game. The purpose of using...
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Oscar Wilde
To answer this question fairly, you may want to check out the books Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde: his Life and Confessions by Frank Harris, and/or Oscar Wilde by Robert Sherard....
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Lady Windermere's Fan
In the high society of Lady Windermere's Fan, wherein we find Lord and Lady Windermere, appearances are everything. Having been mistakenly exposed for having an affair, Lord Windermere must find a...
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Oscar Wilde
The main topics about which Oscar Wilde wrote involved the conservative Victorian social mores of the period in which he lived. His most widely-acclaimed work is the play "The Importance of Being...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
It is safe to say that every name in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest has an interpretive meaning and that all have some connection to Victorian society. The reasons for this are that (1)...
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Oscar Wilde
Aestheticism and the presentation of beauty is a massively important theme in many of Wilde's works, and one text in particular that could be used in responding to this question would be The...
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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
I would suggest that the Victorian period was one of great social and economic change. The Industrial Revolution, for example, changed the structure of society. As the world became "smaller"...
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Oscar Wilde
There are several ways in which the new aesthetic ideas of the French symbolist and Decadent movements influenced the work of Oscar Wilde. Perhaps the most important influence, due both to his...
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Oscar Wilde
The top four society comedies in Oscar Wilde's dossier are The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, and An Ideal Husband. Each of these comedies explore...
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Oscar Wilde
If we think about the various social comedies that Wilde wrote, it is clear that one ingredient he added to the form of comedy was the figure of the dandy. The dandy could be defined as a man with...
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Oscar Wilde
There is no absolute singular model of femininity offered by Oscar Wilde, but rather many different female characters, some of whom are categorizable into character types. This is especially the...
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Oscar Wilde
One of the earliest sources used to study social ideology among Irish authors is John Sloan. In his article "Oscar Wilde's Critical Ideology", Sloane proposes that, politically speaking, Wilde was...
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Oscar Wilde
Viewed from a historical context, Wilde's Victorian society, from the 1860s to 1900, intended for everything, printed or published, to teach a "moral" to audiences. However, the Aesthetic movement...
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Oscar Wilde
The main idea of "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde is encompassed by the phrase spoken by the Giant in the story 'I have many beautiful flowers,' he said; 'but the children are the most beautiful...
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Oscar Wilde
During the first of three trials for which Oscar Wilde was prosecuted for Gross Indecency on April 3rd, 1895, Wilde refers to Pater as "The only critic of the century whose opinion I set high" At...
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Oscar Wilde
This is a great question because there is, indeed, a difference in the treatment, the descriptions, and the roles of women from one work to the other. In Dorian Gray the roles of women are of...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance follows the tradition of Wilde's comedies of manners. This is a specific theatrical genre that aim to critique and even satirize the common dynamics of...
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Oscar Wilde
Why would us knowing the name of the city make it more intense and exciting to read this excellent short story? Surely the point of the story has nothing to do with the location of the city, but it...
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Oscar Wilde
This is an excellent question indeed. I agree with the first responder. Partly Wilde, by advocating art for art's sake, was reacting against an earlier, more didactic approach to literature....
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Oscar Wilde
Satire is more intellectual humor, more sarcastic, while a farce is more slap-slip, ridiculous or absurd. A satirical perspective is more humorous with perhaps a degree of cynicism thrown in....
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Oscar Wilde
"The Young King" by Oscar Wilde is part of a collection of short stories and fairy tales published under the name of The House of Pomegranates". Most of the short stories in this collection have...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose" is a short story that illustrates the philosophy of true love in the form of the nightingale. The nightingale is the symbol of all the things that...
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Oscar Wilde
I share your inability to find metaphors in this excellent short story. My suggestion, however, is that if you are focussing on figurative language in your work, consider the use of similes in this...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, not unlike Charles Dickens, lampoons a frivolous aristocracy in his The Importance of Being Ernest. In Act I, for instance, Lady Bracknell questions Jack not on what he has said, but...
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Oscar Wilde
I think that analysis of the themes of these plays might be a very good start in terms of assessing their socially critical value. Even before this, it might be helpful to assert that Wilde,...
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Oscar Wilde
SIMILES: Comparisons that use the word "like" or "as." a) "The sledge was shaped like a great golden swan..." b) "she was as pale as the Snow Palace in which she had always lived." c) "'"She is...
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Oscar Wilde
As I'm sure you know, a metaphor is a comparison that does not use the word "like" or "as." What is interesting is that there are hardly any metaphors at all in Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince."...
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Oscar Wilde
"The Devoted Friend" by Oscar Wilde is a short story whose main idea is the exposure of the double standards of what is thought to be as the proper, righteous, and polite society of Victorian...
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Oscar Wilde
The fairy tale "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde has a lot of figurative language and figures of speech as it often occurs in this genre. When the giant repeatedly says "My own garden is my own...
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Oscar Wilde
Please, don't be depressed about a silly little term paper. You'll write a great paper about the Happy Prince, and some day you'll meet one, too! SIMILE (comparisons using "like" or "as"): a) "He...
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Oscar Wilde
Reading this poem twice is a good idea. If you have no familiarity with the Bible, then the story may not come as easily. This is the difficulty with allusions: if someone is unfamiliar with what...
