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IDENTITA' E DIVERSITA', Before a group of listeners, especially if…
IDENTITA' E DIVERSITA'
OSCAR WILDE
AN ANCIENT INFLUENCER
Wilde was a true dandy. He made his life a work of art, based on the principles of beauty, elegance and extravagance. Firm opponent of the Victorian society's moralism, he was a pleasure seeker and aimed to astonish those around him with his provocative manners, bizarre style and modus vivendi. He displayed his diversity in order to be in the spotlight. 
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SEXUAL IDENTITY ISSUES
In 1881, Wilde went on a coast-to-coast lecture tour throughout the United States. He wanted to promote himself as a celebrity, but he was also searching for his true sexual identity.
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DE PROFUNDIS
ALIENATION
During the years spent in prison, Wilde gets to know an aspect of life he has always ignored and kept out of his philosphy of pleasure: sorrow.
INTROSPECTION
He finds Humility hidden somewhere in his nature. Humility is the key to make sense of suffering and not to be overcome by it. Giving up his presumption of being infallible and always cheerful is the first step to accept and understand his new condition.
PEACE
He is not bitter against the world and Lord Alfred Douglas, who has abandoned him. He manages to turn everything that has happened to him into a spiritual experience, which has to be the starting point for a fresh development. He wants to be cheerful and happy again, but he does not try to forget his past self and life.
Before a group of listeners, especially if they were young and handsome and titled, he outdid himself. In the spark of their admiration his mind quickened.- Frances Winwar
He described his own poetry as "the song of Sex, of Amativeness, and even Animality"
-> he was trying to tell the truth about himself
His character on stage was both appalling and appealing, feminine and masculine, aesthetic and athletic.
"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid. My God! how mad I was to love you! What a fool I have been! You are nothing to me now. I will never see you again. I will never think of you. I will never mention your name. You don't know what you were to me, once. Why, once ... Oh, I can't bear to think of it! I wish I had never laid eyes upon you! You have spoiled the romance of my life. How little you can know of love, if you say it mars your art! Without your art, you are nothing. I would have made you famous, splendid, magnificent. The world would have worshipped you, and you would have borne my name. What are you now? A third-rate actress with a pretty face."The picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter 7
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
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It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it.
And the first thing that I have got to do is to free myself from any possible bitterness of feeling against the world.