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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde is an Irish writer of the 19th century and one of the great prominent Victorian writers of the period. Victorian writers are the writers who wrote literature work during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Victorian literature work revolved around the Queen Victoria epoch. The Victorian literature was a romantic had many writers of the romantic period who are different from the 20th century literature writers. Wilde was born in 16 October 1954 in Dublin, Ireland and died in 30 November 1900 in Paris. Wilde is a classic English Victorian literature writer and he wrote many novels as well as poetry books. He grew up in wealthy family and became eminent while at DublinTrinityCollege and OxfordUniversity where he started showing up his talent of literature work. He married in 1891 but he began an intimate relationship with Lord Douglas something that led to his imprisonment for sodomy. Thus, most of his Victorian literature works around the theme of homosexuality as a crime in the society.
Wilde’s work contradicted the faithfulness of the Victorian era but the contradiction was his intentions of work and another aim of his work was the glorification of the youths. It is because of this controversial lifestyle that accounted for his conviction for the crime of homosexuality thus was jailed. While in jail, he wrote a book and the theme revealed out the way he was not like other men but just a scapegoat. Wilde attempts to combine imaginations and emotions in writing literature work. This accounts for his prominence of the wit work while he was still an undergraduate. He was awarded the first prize in OxfordUniversity for his best composition in poetry, which was known as the Ravenna in 1878. This poem attracted many people some of which initiated a personal cult (Wilde 2010). He wrote poetry books in phrases and philosophical way that was read by many youths.
In Wilde’ literature work, homosexuality is common in the contemporary society. Wilde believed that his rebellion of the Victorian ethical policy was his writing whim. Wilde quotes that “love passed into the house of lust” Wilde (2010) indicating the way Victorian epoch was a romantic age. Wilde had a criminal mentality and he challenged the society through creating scandals although his scandals were privately made. Criminology is a social problem in the contemporary society, which is why some of his novels were being celebrated by youths who engaged in unethical behaviors. In Wilde’s original version of the work The Picture of Dorian Gray that was published in Lippincott’s magazine, where he emphasized the murder of Hallward Basil by Dorlan. He commented that the criminal tendency usually becomes a criminal act. Dorian Grey was one of his publications in1891 that was celebrated by many youths (Landow 2010).
In between 1892 and 1895, Wilde became an active dramatist and he even wrote drama books for children. Wilde wrote drama books that he identifies as the trivial comedies for serious people. Due to mysterious, clever composing as well as epigrammatic dialogues, which relied on elaborative word games for its effect, Wilde’s books became the best selling books of the epoch. In 1892, he published a drama book known as Lady Windermere’s Fan and another known as a woman of No Importance in the following year as well as An Ideal Husband in 1893. These novels reveals about the marriage and relationships in the society. These relationships in the contemporary society face diverse problems, something that Wilde emphasized in his novels. However, the best book that a mused many readers is a comedy book known as The Importance of Being Earnest produced in 1895. This was the greatest comedy of all the comedies, which was talking a bout a satire of Victorian social insincerity.
Some of Wilder’s novels of homosexuality novels created problems during the reign of Victoria. (Shaw and Rhianna 2010) argues that Victorian literature is characterized by a sense of strong morality. He quotes that “prostitution was not a violation of Victorian morality” thus homosexual and other distinctly classified sexes were secretly done. Thus, most of literature work revolved around love relationships between same sex as well opposite sexes. During the Victorian epoch, the period was considered a great literature era because of the philosophical way of writing. The Victorian writers including Wilde employed unique writing styles such use of love relationships that contradicted the religious people during this era. Homosexuality was regarded as a crime during the Victorian era but Wilde employed homosexuality in his style of writing that attracted many youths.
Work cited
Wilde, Oscar. “The Harlot’s House”. The Victorian web. November 5, 2011. Web. April
27,2010 <http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/harlot.html>
Landow, George P. “Early and Mid-Victorian Attitudes towards Prostitution.” The Victorian
Web. November 5, 2011.Web. 17 May 2010.
Shaw, Rhianna. The Great Social Evil: “The Harlot’s House” and Prostitutes in Victorian
London. The Victorian web. November 5, 2011. Web. May 18, 2010. <http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/shaw.html>
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