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Oscar Wilde
When talking about whether a particular figure is "modern," there is some confusion between "modernity," as a historical period (though one of disputed duration) and "modernism" as an artistic and...
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Oscar Wilde
Wilde and Hemingway might easily be seen as polar opposites, particularly if one were to compare, for instance, the descriptive, mellifluous prose of The Picture of Dorian Gray or "The Young King"...
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Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan is the first and arguably the least assured of Wilde’s social comedies. Despite the epigrammatic brilliance of Lord Darlington and Cecil Graham, the plot is one of...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854–November 30, 1900) was a playwright, fiction writer, poet, and essayist known especially for his wit. More importantly, perhaps, he was gay in...
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Oscar Wilde
“The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde is a story about a young man who has fallen madly in love with a girl. This is the first difference between these two stories: in Wilde’s story, the...
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Oscar Wilde
There is no doubt that Oscar Wilde's fame is justified. One might quibble about the type of fame he has generally enjoyed. Wilde is said (by André Gide, among others) to have boasted that he put...
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Oscar Wilde
In Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince,” the Swallow initially shares superficial relationships with other characters; through the course of the short story, however, the bird develops a deeper, more...
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Oscar Wilde
Making a connection between James Joyce and Oscar Wilde would be fascinating and compelling. Both are provocative Irish authors. James Joyce's Ulysses was banned in Ireland, England, Canada, and...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's "The Remarkable Rocket" is a satire, a story that pokes fun at the failings of certain types of people in Victorian society. The focus in this story is on the moral weaknesses of the...
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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
The Happy Prince, by Oscar Wilde, is a wonderful allegory, typical of 19th century English fiction. Social injustice, the redemptive power of love, and the loss of innocence are themes addressed...
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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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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
Oscar Wilde’s short story “The Selfish Giant” conveys the notion that anyone can achieve eternal peace through kindness and love. In the story, a group of children regularly visits a giant’s...
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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
In Oscar Wilde's "The Model Millionaire," a young man named Hughie Erskine performs an act of kindness that yields him great reward. Although he is handsome and well-liked, Hughie does not come...
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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
The fan has many colors, facets, faces, functions, much like the colors in the tail of peacock: it is both beautiful and a symbol of courtship. Also, it is Lady Windamere's greatest fan (person...
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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
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...
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Oscar Wilde
The story examines the nature of love. The student pines for the girl he loves, but his love has no depth or enduring passion. His feelings change abruptly to anger and disgust the moment he is...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was known for having a flamboyant lifestyle because he used his wit and intelligence to pursue a life of pleasure. He adopted a carefully-crafted public reputation which included an...
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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
What do we have of the past that is tangible BUT the artistic? The writings, the architecture, the paintings and sculptures, the literature of a time are the recordings of the human experience....
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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
One of the main themes in The Young King is self-transformation. This young king who lives in opulence and extravagance has an ephiphany through a dream, realizing that the golden and expensive...
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Oscar Wilde
Since there is no overt statement that indicates the setting, the reader must surmise from the characters and dialogue what is the time and place of Wilde's "The Young King." Some of the...
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Oscar Wilde
The rising action in Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince occurs when the swallow meets the statue of the prince and they begin to perform good deeds together. The swallow was migrating to the Egyptian...
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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
The Prince was looking over the city noticing how deprived he was of the truth: That while he was Prince and rich, the people of lesser birth died of hunger and disease in poverty at the slums....
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Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince. The main character in this story. He used to live a happy life as a prince in the royal palace until he dies. A statue of him is then built and placed on a tall column high above...
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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
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importanceand nearly every work of Oscar Wilde there is a point to be made on the matter of philanthropy. The attitude...
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Oscar Wilde
No doubt you have studied the sheer irony of this short story, about a woman whose secret turns out to be that she does not have a secret at all. The very thing Lady Alroy uses to attract a man,...
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Oscar Wilde
In this story, a young man, a student, is told by a woman that she would dance with him at the ball the next night if he brought her a red rose. However, he has no red roses, and is vocalizing his...
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Oscar Wilde
In Oscar Wilde's text "The Model Millionaire," the charming and penniless Hughie Erskine is madly in love with Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired colonel who finds Hughie congenial but will...
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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
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
Perhaps one of the following:"Don't waste your life being sacrificial for people who don't deserve it." Love makes you vulnerable, so be careful who you give your love to.What some value...
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Oscar Wilde
You can draw several lessons from the story. You could sum up the more evident ones in these themes: Looks can be deceiving. People are not always what they seem to be.Infatuation is a very elusive...
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Oscar Wilde
The previous answer beautifully and accurately analyzed Wilde's texts in terms of his preferred writing styles and his predilection of genres. My answer will therefore try to answer the same...
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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
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
As in any era, the literature of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods reflected social concerns of the time. A general consciousness of the change in the century—the "fin de siecle"—lent the...
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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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Oscar Wilde
The scene from act 1 in which Lady Bracknell interviews Jack is an excellent example of Oscar Wilde's satire. Just before this scene, Lady Bracknell has discovered that her daughter Gwendolen wants...
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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
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
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
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...
