Presentation in English "Oscar Wilde"

Oscar Wilde belongs to those bourgeois writers whose literary activity, contradictory in its nature, mirrors the bourgeois ideology. Wilde was regarded as the leader of the English aesthetic movement, but many of his works do not follow his decadent theory of ‘art for art’s sake’, they sometimes even contradict it. In fact, the best of them are closer to Romanticism and Realism than to decadent literature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrxPEDDxq0s&t=62s&ab_channel=delaws88

Life of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16,1854. His father was a famous Irish surgeon. His mother was well known in Dublin as a graceful writer of verse and prose.

At school, and later at Oxford, Oscar displayed a considerable gift for art and the humanities. The young man received a number of classical prizes, and graduated with first-class honours.

While at the University Wilde became one of the most prominent personalities of the day; he wore his hair long, decorated his rooms with peacock’s feathers, lilies, sunflowers, blue china and other beautiful things. His affected paradoxes and witty sayings were quoted on all sides.

Under the influence of his teacher, the writer John Ruskin, Wilde joined the then young Aesthetic Movement, which came into being as a protest against bourgeois hypocrisy and bigotry, but later turned idealistic and reactionary. The future writer became a most sincere supporter of this movement.

After graduating from the University, Wilde turned his attention to writing, travelling and lecturing. The Aesthetic Movement became popular, and Oscar Wilde earned the reputation of being the leader of the movement, and an apostle of beauty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njSSCBjnsbU&ab_channel=Biographics

In 1882 he went to America to lecture on the Aesthetic Movement in England. His lecture tours were triumphantly successful. The next ten years saw the appearance of all his major works. The most popular of them are The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and his comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The wit and brilliance of these plays helped to keep them on the stage, and they are still occasionally revived.

Wilde also wrote poems, essays, reviews, political tracts, letters and occasional pieces on every subject he considered worthy of attention – history, drama, painting, etc. Some of these pieces were serious, some satirical; the variety of themes reflected a personality that could never remain inactive.

At home and abroad Wilde attracted the attention of his audiences by the brilliance of his conversation, the scope of his knowledge, and the sheer force of his personality. At the height of his popularity and success tragedy struck. He was accused of immorality and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. When released from prison in 1897 he lived mainly on the Continent and later in Paris. In 1898 he published his powerful poem, Ballad of Reading Gaol. He died in Paris in 1900.

The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray describes the life of a young man, Dorian Gray, or to be more exact, his spiritual life. The author touches upon many important problems of contemporary life: morality, art and beauty in particular.

The three main characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray are the title character (a beautiful young man), Basil Hallward (a painter), and Lord Henry Wotton (Basil Hallward’s friend). The three main characters

The novel opens with Basil painting Dorian Gray’s portrait.

A few weeks later, Dorian tells Henry that he has fallen in love with an actress, Sibyl Vane, because of her great beauty and acting talent.

Dorian stabs his portrait, cries out, and falls to the floor. Although his servants hear the shout, they have no key to the locked room. Finally, they enter through a window and find Basil's portrait of Dorian, once again showing Dorian's face as young and beautiful. A withered body lies near the painting. No one can tell who it is. Finally checking the rings on the corpse's hands, they identify the dead man as Dorian Gray.

10 Motion Pictures of Dorian Gray 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) 2. Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 3. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915) 4. Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1970) 5. Доріан Ґрей (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnB8H6tiYkE&ab_channel=GilsMasArtTek 6. Ліга видатних джентльменів (2003) 7. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973 TV Movie) 8. Dorian (2003) 9. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983) Episode: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) 10. The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983 TV Movie)

Unknown Facts About Oscar Wilde & ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ Oscar Wilde, a gay icon Oscar Wilde was forced to keep his homosexuality a secret and married Constance Lloyd in 1884. a secret love affair Wilde met Lord Alfred Douglas, a young British poet, sixteen years his junior. They soon became lovers. Wilde’s Trial This will lead to a major hit to Wilde’s reputation, as well as a trial during which the author was sentenced to serve two years of hard labor for “gross indecency” in 1895.

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