Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

• Imprisonment before and after
• Medeia Dzaparidze

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Oscar and Bosie

• Lord Alfred Douglas
• The most chivalrous friend in the world"
• From Wildes letter "It is a marvel that those
  red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less
  for the madness of music and song than for the
  madness of kissing, your slim gilt soul walks
  between passion and poetry.
• The Marquis of Queensberry

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Imprisonment

• May 25, 1895
• "hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed"
• Bankruptcy
• In 1896 lost legal custody of his children
  Wandsworth
• Pentoville

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Realesing

• 19 May 1897
• Sebastian Melmoth (after Saint Sebastian, and the
  titular character of Melmoth the Wanderer by
  Charles Maturin)
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol, An Ideal Husband,
  The Importance of Being Earnest
• "This poverty really breaks one's heart it is so
  sale, so utterly depressing, so hopeless. Pray do
  what you can."

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Death
Death

• 30 November 1900
• Cimetière de Bagneux, later Père Lachaise
  Cemetery
• And alien tears will fill for himPity's long
  broken urn.For his mourners will be outcast
  men,And outcasts always mourn.
• The tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery

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• The Picture of Dorian Gray

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About the Book

• The only published novel.
• Lippncotts Monthly Magazine
• 20 June 1890 .
• The amended version
• Ward, Lock, adn Company
• April 1891.
• Brought him more lasting recognition.

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The Main Characters

• Dorian Gray
• Basil Hallward
• Lord Henry (Harry) Wotton
• Oscar Wilde "Basil Hallward
• is what I think I am Lord Henry is
• what the world thinks me Dorian
• is what I would like to bein other ages,
  perhaps."

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Dorian Gray

• the archetype of male youth and beauty
• always young, always cursed

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Basil Hallward

• the painter, infatuated with Dorians beauty
• in love with Dorian

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Lord Henry (Harry) Wotton

• a cynical nobelman, self-proclaimed hedonist
• possessed of wrong, fascinating, poisonous,
  delightful theories.
• Dorian falls under
• his spell completely
• himself fails to realize the
• implications of most of
• what he says.

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The story

• The novel begins with Lord Henry surveying Basil
  Hallward painting the portrait of a good looking
  man named Dorian Gray. Dorian arrives later and
  meets Wotton. After hearing Lord Henry's world
  view, Dorian falls under his spell so completely
  and begins to think that beauty is the only
  worthwhile aspect of life, the only thing left to
  pursue. Realizing that one day his beauty will
  fade, Dorian enunciates his wish to sell his soul
  to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would
  age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is
  fulfilled. Under the influence of Lord Henry,
  Dorian begins to live licentious life. At the
  same time, the portrait serves as a reminder of
  the effect each act has upon his soul, with each
  sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or
  through a sign of aging.

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vrcTfavNzA6U

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The End