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Reaction to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

is described by Ovid as having unending youth, eternal boyhood: however, one of the points which Wilde is making is that Dorian is...

Comparing Three Literary Works

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

Christ, Religion and the Works of Oscar Wilde

the beginning. And, we can also gather information regarding his relationship with Christ and/or religion. With such parents, and ...

'Other' in Salome by Oscar Wilde

of his play, rolling several historical Herods into one and using the biblical narrative as the slenderest of bases for his plot" ...

Love, Marriage, and Women in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

Deception and Mistaken Identity in Wilde and Aeschylus

motion the rest of the grounds for the deceit in the play. As Clytemnestra watches her daughter butchered at the hands of her hus...

Comparative Analysis of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Misanthrope

word be spoken that comes not from the heart" (Moliere I.i). As this opening argument to the play suggests, Molieres view of fun...

Case Study of Oscar Mayer

people at the OM company are not sure if the investment of capital resources is necessarily worth the time and trouble it takes to...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

Portrait Changes in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In 3 pages this paper examines what is meant by the changes to the portrait of Dorian Gray in an analysis of this novel by Oscar W...

William Blake, James Joyce, and Oscar Wilde on Love

In eight pages this paper discusses how love is expressed within such literary works as Songs of Innocence and Experience by Willi...

Art for the Sake of Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

of community theaters and high-school drama clubs). On the complete opposite end of the spectrum from his drawing-room comedies, h...

The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes this work by Oscar Wilde in terms of its word choices, tone, style,, form, objectiv...

Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses the significance of sexuality in a consideration of the concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche, the wr...

The Concept of Time in Two Novels

do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf foll...

The Concept of Time in Woolf and Wilde

can do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf ...

Wilde's "The Happy Prince," Critical Analysis

This essay presents an overview of critical opinion pertaining to "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde. Five pages in length, six sou...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

Themes in The Picture of Dorian Gray

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the story The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This paper includes a discussion of ho...

Individuality According to the Perceptions of John Stuart Mill and Oscar Wilde

The individuality concepts of Wilde and Mill are contrated and compated in a paper consisting of six pages....

Augustine's View of Humanity

to Augustine, this transformative power for human beings is so profound that, once it occurs, the Christian can "love and do whate...

Power in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper examines how power is portrayed by Wilde in his poem 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and in the plays A Woma...

19th Century Comic Techniques of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay compares An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in a discussion of the comic techniques the...

Comparison of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...

Eavesdropping in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In twelve pages the importance of eavesdropping and written communications to these two plays are examined. Three sources are cit...

Beauty, Art, and The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In seven pages the ways in which Wilde's novel explores the meaning of beauty and art are discussed. There are no other sources c...

Culture and Crime in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper discusses the lack of incongruity between crime and culture as this theme pertains to Wilde's An Ideal Hu...

Homoeroticism and Aestheticism in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

could have entirely missed that The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gay book. After all, the protagonist, Dorian, is guilty, among oth...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...