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Hidden Self and Oscar Wilde

he sees Dorian daily; "I couldnt be happy if I didnt see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me" ("Picture", 113). Howeve...

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 Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

another-- together... III. Conclusions A.) Overall, The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the great comedies of the English ...

Romantic and Victorian Literature Contrasted

In five pages this essay contrasts these very different literary styles with the Romantic period's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' b...

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...

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...

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...

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....

The Theater and Its Use of Comedy

Funny women with a prominent role in the narrative are shared by many plays. This paper examines The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, he...

The Concept of Virtue

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

A Review of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party by Alfred Young

In this five page paper the fact that our perception of history changes over time is illustrated with a look back some fifty years...

Identity Perception and Thought According to Thomas Reid and John Locke

identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Section 9 Book II, Chapter XXVII). Yet, Locke gathered his ideas from talkin...

Freedom According to Smith, Mill, and de Tocqueville, Mill

In a paper consisting of 8 pages these 3 theorists and their concepts of freedom are contrasted and compared with de Tocqueville's...

Considerations in Humanitarian Intervention

sometimes a culturally driven process. It is the product of the morals and ethics of the entities involved on both sides of the s...

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...

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...

Comic Effects in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Court are called Algernon" (Wilde 76). Here, Wilde is clearly poking fun at the aristocracys preoccupation with names and appeara...

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and The Misanthrope by Moliere

This paper contrasts and compares the characters of Cecily and Alceste in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Homosexuality and Oscar Wilde

In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...

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...

The Perception of Beauty

itself does not have to be defined within the scope of fashion because fashion itself is only a development of cultural determinan...

Baptism And Ablution

ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...

Criticla Questions in Modern Society

government, constituting an educated elite while the rest of society was expected merely to follow and obey. Democracy is founded...

Excerpt from The Silent Partners by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

"Helas" and the Victorian Hypocrisy

by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...