Oscar Wilde
Dipali Patel 21/12/09 Influence of the style and structure in Oscar Wilde's 'The picture of Dorian Gray' How does the style and structure of Oscar Wilde's 'The picture of Dorian Gray' affect your understanding of the novel? Style includes the details of writing, such as choice of diction, use of figures of speech, rhythm, tone and so on. Structure however, includes large matters such as the overall construction of a story, like the plot, events and climax. In Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray', the style of writing is very unique, the choice of language is interesting, there is a lot of use of figures of speech and there is a creation of distinct sound and sound patterns. The structure of the book is also compelling, there are matters of suspense and creation of drama which consequently lead to a climax. In 'Dorian Gray' these two areas seem to contradict eachother, the style could be shown to lead to amoral aestheticism, and the structure could be shown to lead to immoral values. The following essay is an attempt to probe and analyse these two areas and see how they affect ones understanding of the novel and if possible, to find a synthesis between the two. Aestheticism mainly came about during the Victorian era, where Aesthetes believed life had to be lived intensely, and people
Oscar wilde
Oscar Wilde Oscar O'flahertie wills Wilde was born into an Anglo Irish family on the 6th of October 1854 in Dublin. He lived at 21 Westland Row with his father Sir William Wilde and his mother Jane Francesca Elgee who was married to William Wilde. Jane Wilde was a successful writer she was also known as 'Speranza' and was an Irish nationalist. Sir William Wilde was Irelands leading ear and eye surgeon, he also wrote books on archaeology and folklore. In June 1855, when Oscar was one years of age the family moved to number one Merrion Square. This was a fashionable place to live, Jane Wilde would hold afternoon salon tea parties, and she would often invite Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels, Samuel Lever, son of Jacob lever, Isaac Butt, the founder and first leader of a number of parties and organizations, including the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society and Samuel Ferguson, an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. Oscar was home schooled until the age of nine, when he was nine he joined Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh until he was sixteen. He spent his summers with his family in Rural Waterford, Wexford and William Wilde's family home in Mayo. Oscar left Portora Royal School to study classics at Trinity College in Dublin from the age of sixteen to nineteen. He was a very high achiever; he won