Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who lived from 1854 to 1900. He is known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and plays like Salome. Wilde dressed in a unique fashion and was imprisoned for two years for homosexual acts, which was illegal at the time in Victorian England. Some of his most famous works included The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel influenced by aestheticism, as well as short stories and plays that were critically acclaimed in his lifetime.
2. BIOGRAPHY
o Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie
Wills Wilde
o Dublin
o Known for his strange
clothes
o Only novel : The picture
of Dorian Gray
o1895- was imprisoned
because of being
homosexual
4. WRITINGS
o Picture of Dorian Gray
(1891)
o Tales such as The happy
Prince and other Tales
o Wrote some poetry:
Canterville Ghost
o Essays about politics : The
Soul of a Man under
socialism
o Lots of plays: Salome
(french)
5. PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and
AESTHETICISM
o First and last novel
o Influenced by
aestheticism: Art for Art
o Criticized because of
homosexual content in UK
6. QUOTES OF OSCAR WILDE
About Life
oExperience is the name every
one gives to their mistakes.
o I put all my genius into my life;
I put only my talent into my
works.
oThere are only two tragedies
in life: one is not getting what
one wants, and the other is
getting it.
On love
o The heart was made to be
broken.
o They spoil every romance by
trying to make it last forever.
7. About relationship and
marriage
o Bigamy is having one wife too
many. Monogamy is the same.
o Those who are faithful know only
the trivial side of love: it is the
faithless who know love's tragedies.
oMarriage is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of
hope over experience.
To ponder
o Nothing that is worth knowing can
be taught.
o Be yourself; everyone else is
already taken.
o The pure and simple truth is rarely
pure and never simple.
8. About men and women
o A man who does not think for himself
does not think at all.
o A man can be happy with any
woman as long as he does not love her.
o A man's face is his autobiography. A
woman's face is her work of fiction.
o One should never trust a woman who
tells one her real age. A woman who
would tell one that would tell one
anything.
o The strength of women comes from
the fact that psychology cannot
explain us. Men can be analyzed,
women merely adored.
o I see when men love women. They
give them but a little of their lives. But
women when they love give
everything.
9. Statue of Oscar Wilde by Danny Osbornein Dublin's Merrion Square
10.
11. "A Conversation with Oscar Wilde"
Tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père by Maggi Hambling, on Adelaide
Lachaise Cemetery Street, London
