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Wilde

Oscar

PRESENTED BY ANNA CARROZZA, MARIA VITTORIA DIMARTINO, BEATRICE RAINIS, GIULIA SORRENTINO, GINEVRA VIANELLO

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”

-Oscar Wilde

Index

CONTENTS OF THIS PRESENTATION

Aestheticism

Oscar Wilde's life

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Importance of being Earnest

- his life -

Sir William Wilde: otologist and ophtamologist, writer Jane Francesca Elgee: poet, fought for Ireland's independence

Born in Dublin, Ireland

16TH OCTOBER 1854

He brilliantly attended Trinity College in Dublin and Oxford University thanks to scholarships. This was also the beginning of an extravagant life of luxury and travels, that led him to financial issues and family disagreements.

STUDIES

1871-1878

He started composing poetry, publishing his first collection in 1881. His work and his behaviour earned him criticism and allegations of immoral conduct.That same year he met Constance Lloyd, a rich and well educated young woman.

years in london

1878

His fame as a writer and public figure became worldwide.

usa, england and ireland lecture tours

1882

Despite Oscar's financial troubles the couple was happy during the first years of their marriage. They had two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan, in 1885 and 1886.In 1886 he met Robert Ross and started having affairs with him and other young men.

MARRIAGE WITH CONSTANCE LLOYD

1884

He wrote his only novel and greatest work, that was not well received by the public. Critics found it unethical and wicked, failing to see its beauty.

the picture of dorian gray was published

1890

Differing from other previous casual flings, his relationship with Alfred Douglas was more serious and lasting. The affair proved to be extremely damaging to both Wilde's reputation and finances.

MEETING ALFRED "BOSIE" DOUGLAS

1892

His satyrical comedies "Lady Windermere's Fan", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "Salomè" and "The Importance of being Earnest" gained him immense success and popularity.

SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRITING

1892-1895

Bosie's father Lord Queensberry accused Wilde of entertaining homosexual relationships and immoral behaviour. Wilde decided to respond by suing him for defamation. During the trial evidence of said relationships came out and the case against Lord Queensberry was rejected. Wilde was then put on trial for sodomy and found guilty.

ALLEGATIONS OF HOMOSEXUALITY AND TRIAL

1895

Wilde was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and hard labour, during which his health conditions became teriible. His wife Constance and his friend and former lover Robert Ross remained in close and affectionate contact with him, while Alfred Douglas completely abandoned him.

ImPRISONMENT IN READING GAOL

1895-1897

He got out of prison a changed and broken man. His wife refused to let him back home and London became hostile to him. He left England and moved to France. He died in Paris on the 30th november 1900.

last years and death

1897-1900

Aestheticism

DEFINITION: art movement that valued the appearance of literature, music and the arts over their functions WHEN: Second half of 19th century MAIN THEORIST: Walter Pater POPULAR FIGURE: the dandy ITALY: D’Annunzio - the Superman

The artist... exceptional individual attracted to meaningless life, the transcriber of the sense of the world

Art for Art’s Sakè Art has nothing to do with morality, and is not didactic

The Picture of Dorian Gray

PLOT

Dorian's beauty captures a painter, who decides to make a portrait of Dorian

1-

Dorian's moral becomes corrupted and the potrait starts to reflect it, becoming a grotesque caricature

3-

Dorian becomes interested in ideas of self-indulgence and pleasure

2-

Dorian falls in love with an actress, but her performance decline and he abandons her

4-

Dorian's becomes tormented by his cruel actions and the paint, that shows his moral corruption

6-

Dorian's friend and painter discovers the paint and confronts it and his friend Dorian.Basil is killed by Dorian

5-

Dorian decides to destroy the portrait, believing that it will also destroy all the badness in him

7-

Dorian stabs the painting many times, but he doesn't destroy the paint: he kills himself

8-

The Picture of Dorian Gray

CHARACTERS

Basil Hallward

Dorian gray

SYBIL VANE

Lord Henry Wotton

The Picture of Dorian Gray

THEMES

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

beauty and appearance

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Double life of the society

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

influenceability

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

THE Purpose of art

The Picture of Dorian Gray

STYLE

Inspired by Gothic novels

Supernatural elements

Third person narrator

Unobtrusive narrator

Detailed descriptioNS

Dialogues reveal the character's personality

Insightful dialogues

The Importance of being Earnest

themes

the instituition of marriage

practice surrounded by hypocrisy and absurdity truly moral is the opposite of earnestness: irreverence tool for achieving social status

DEATH

layer of dark humor idea of life being a work of art death as something over which a person actually has control

A NEW COMEDY OF MANNERS

Restoration of comedy of manners → problems of his age were reflected through witty remarks Fashionable audiences

The Importance of being Earnest

themes

IRONY AND IMAGINATION

witty dialogues, amusing puns, misunderstandings and paradoxes complexity of social and personal identification 'Earnest (misspelling for 'Ernest)

THE DANDY

a witty, overdressed, self-styled philosopher who speaks in epigrams and paradoxes and ridicules the cant and hypocrisy of society positive and moral position on the figure of the dandy something very close to the real hero, he wants a happy resolution for the plot

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