Essays on Oscar Wilde
As I examine the role of the double in Victorian Gothic fiction, I will be focusing on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Gothic literature is a genre of writing, first generated by Horace Walpole in 1764 with his...
Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1854, Oscar Wilde was exposed to the worlds of medicine and culture by his successful parents while studying the classics and reading The Grapes during college he joined artistic and literary movements. He became known for his writing especially his poems, plays, and Soul novel during the late 19th century....
Oscar Wilde’s literature enables readers to encounter the best and most exceedingly awful aspects of Victorian society which gives us a chance to experience various thoughts and issues which are outside our comfort zone. Oscar Wilde was an artist, writer and a poet who was detained for ‘gross indecency’ making him very unique in contrast...
This essay sets out to critique the concept of appearance and the link with an individual’s disposition through the lens of two nineteenth-century novels; The Picture of Dorian Gray authored by Oscar Wilde and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. Both of these stories were written in the nineteenth century; however, The Hunchback...
