Carmen Rado 2012 General information Birthname Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde Birth date October 16 1854 Birth place Dublin Ireland Death date November 30 1900 Death place Paris France ID: 204567
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Oscar Wilde
Carmen Rado
2012Slide2
General information
Birthname: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Birth date: October 16, 1854
Birth place: Dublin, Ireland
Death date: November 30, 1900
Death place: Paris, France
Burial: La Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Grey
High school: Portora Royal School
College: Trinity College, Magdalen College
Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor
Children: Cyril and VyvyanSlide3Slide4
Some interesting facts
Although a proficient
(vilunud)
and versatile
(mitmekülgne)
writer, Wilde only wrote one novel during his lifetime: “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” published in 1891.
Went on a lecture tour throughout the United States, London and Canada to teach aesthetic
(esteetiline)
values in 1879.
Regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era, Wilde wrote and produced nine plays.
In 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to prison for 2 years, convicted of homosexuality. Slide5Slide6
Literary works
1878 Ravenna
1881 Poems
1888 The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1889 The Decay of Lying
1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray
1891 Lord Arthur
Savile’s
Crime and Other Stories
1891 Intentions
1891 Salome
1892 The House of Pomegranates
1892 Lady Windermere’s Fan
1893 A Woman of No Importance
1893 The Duchess of Padua
1894 The Sphinx
1895 An Ideal Husband
1895 The Importance of Being Earnest
1898 The Ballad of Reading
Gaol
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
20 June
1890
Artist Basil Hallward, who paintes Dorian, is blinded of his natural beauty and believes that young man has made him paint completely newly.
In Basil’s studio Dorian meets lord Henry, whose worldview
he deeply fascinates.
Lord Henry believes that there are only 2 things to strive for(püüelda): beauty and sensory
sensations(meelelised tundmused). Understanding that beauty is not permanent, Dorian wishes that instead of him agings(vananeks) his portrait. Slide9
Some quotes
"Men become old, but they never become good.“
"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men.“
(bachelors-poissmehed)
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.“
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."Slide10Slide11
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