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A LOOK INTOOSCAR WILDE’S WRITING AND HIS USE OF HOMOSEXUAL UNDERTONES

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), was an author, playwright, and pretty witty guy. He stressed the importance of style in both life and art, and attacked high society’s narrow minded views.
Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, on Oct. 16, 1854. His full name was Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. At the age of 20, Wilde left Ireland to go to school at Oxford University where he absolutely shined and established himself as a writer. He was soon a recognized public figure, but he didn’t begin achieve true literary status until he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888. In these fairy tales and fables, Wilde developed a style and form that complimented his talents. Wilde's only novel, the ingenious Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), is an enlarged moral fable. It describes a man whose portrait gets old and ugly as a indication of his moral dishonesty, while he actually remained the same on the outside. The book seems to show the negative side and eventual destruction of the huma...

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