Someone once told me about love. They described love as a beautiful encounter. The one we meet with butterflies lingering in the pit of our stomachs, our ruddy cheeks gain scarlet and scrambled feet. The place where we relish under the sun as everyone gives us their blessings. After all, the union between two people should be something respected. Oh well, that is what love is supposed to be.
Yet, it seems some people do not understand the concept of it as they use the term to excuse their disgusting actions.
I was distraught when I first heard and I am sure you would be too. So, sit back and get your cup of tea ladies and gentlemen. Today, we are talking about the shameful fools of the century, the ones who dared to use love as an excuse
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Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry. I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days. Why are you alone in London, and when do you go to Salisbury? Do go there to cool your hands in the grey twilight of Gothic things, and come here whenever you like. It is a lovely place and lacks only you; but go to Salisbury first.
Always, with undying love,
Yours, Oscar.
Surely not, this is a sweet love letter to Mister Alfred Douglas. I can sense the amount of tenderness dripping from Mister Wilde’s fingers. I am almost jealous, the green eye seeps out of me. A magician with words, he surely knows how to string words. No surprise, he knew how to string his poor wife Constance into this disaster. It already spelled tragedy since the moment we can spot the words boy. The tragedy we already cross out as horrific because who wants to see this freak show?
We all knew Mister Wilde was a man so, his letter already evoked disgust in the crowd. Because no a true man would write such loveliness to another. The way he describes Douglas’ lips and soul, what an image! The way he describes the madness of their kissing, their passion, their poetry, their lovely place! Agh, I can almost taste the illusion of
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“It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world” were the words of Oscar Wilde. Stupid and Ugly being two words he would have never put in the same sentence with himself, in fact Wilde thought of himself as being extremely smart and at times declaring his genius. Known for his over the top characteristic and witty comments, most will recognize him for his most memorable piece “The Importance of Being Earnest”. An examination into the character of Wilde himself, as well as his many different uses of characters and characteristics present in his work will inevitably shed light onto the reasons why Wilde continuously rooted himself in the life and characters of his own writings and work.
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That by all men Major Simcoe writes poetic verses when he is off duty. Verses of love and admiration, praising his loved one features, eyes and character and praising her in poems Madonna-like. How gentle he holds her hand, how gentle and delicate the kisses look he gives her knuckles and cheeks, when his eyes are resting on her he looks as if there is nothing else in this world existing except her, as if... she´d be his universe. She has no idea what love is anymore.
The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde is an excellent play which has many underlying themes and suggestions especially with regards to the Victorian era, during which this was written. Many themes within the play are reflective of Wilde and his life, including his secrecy and supposed “double life,” his interest in aestheticism, his life pertaining the mannerisms and social etiquette during his lifetime. Today, Oscar Wilde is often remembered in part due to his well known homosexuality trial of 1895 (Linderd, 1), but his “second life” per se had been speculated on for years prior to it, in fact many of his plays contain subtle yet effective implications towards a possible piece of his life kept hidden from the public eye. The Importance of Being Earnest mirrored this double life through the utilization of Jack and Algernon's “Bunburying,” and their motives for lying to the ones whom they love.
I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself. ” (Wilde 83) This quote demonstrates how Wilde vigorously accepts homosexuality by displaying Basil’s intense love for Dorian.
He first employed a pattern of ironic inversion in “An Ideal Husband”, the play immediately preceding “Earnest” (Reinert p14). However in the play “The Importance of Being Earnest” Wilde presents his characters as being constantly flippant. The Importance of Being Earnest is one sustained metaphor, and esthetic detachment is the only mood in which it can be intelligently enjoyed ((Reinert p15). Wilde begins his satire in this play with the title itself.