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come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

providing a checklist, as it were, of characteristics and traits which are noted in the degenerate nature. This, of course, did ...

In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...

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

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

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

aesthetic qualities of film noir. Even with the seductiveness of film noir, there is no dropping the history out of the debate. Th...

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

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

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

should he do? In an attempt to capture his youth, he sells his soul and instead of aging, the portrait ages in place of Dorians ow...

In two pages this text is analyzed in terms of evidence concealing by Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale to keep Minnie Wright from being c...

In 10 pages this paper examines the impact of homosexuality on Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Importance of Being E...

In five pages this paper examines Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Seville's Crime, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, Decay of Lying, and The Pict...

for the women we marry - that is quite true" (Lady PG). Attention to outer detail and an unquenchable desire to portray his inner...

the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...

importance. With that in mind the following paper examines the two characters separately and then together in a discussion, in rel...

of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...

is probably much closer to Wildes intent that these expressions of love and beauty be considered in a much more abstract way: Gray...

the previously espoused position of the Church. Most poets adhered to the idea that if man were but to return to his natural world...

beautiful Dorian. Now without any knowledge of the time period and gender roles, a modern reader would not immediately read into t...

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

were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

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

someone is accepted in society. This is but one example, but it speaks of the deeply imbedded social expectations concerning manne...

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

1895 play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde created a work that many critics feel is the epitome of the Victorian come...

older brother Willie and younger sister Isola (Kenyon 12). When his beloved sister died at the age of ten, it was a catastrophic ...

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...