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Oscar Wilde:
The courage to choose Oscar_Wilde_3g07095u-adjust, PLOT
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Oscar Wilde:
The courage to choose 
"To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul"
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his masterpiece is
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"And if I then am not ashamed of my punishment, as I hope not to be, I shall be able to think, and walk, and live with freedom"
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WHO WAS OSCAR WILDE?
Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era.
In his lifetime he wrote nine plays, one novel, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays.
Besides literary accomplishments, he is also famous, or perhaps infamous, for his wit, flamboyance, and affairs with men. He was tried and imprisoned for his homosexual relationship (then considered a crime) with the son of an aristocrat.
PLOT
“The picture of Dorian Gray” tells the story of Dorian, a handsome young man who is retracted by a famous painter Basil Hallward attracted by his beauty. When Dorian sees his picture he’s impressed by the perfection of his beauty and so he expresses the desire to remain young forever. Meanwhile he lives an immoral life and all the signs of his immorality appeared on the painting which is kept hidden in a room; when he sees that his painter became horrible and transfigured, he killed the author of the picture and he tries to destroy the painting . But he died mysteriously and the painter return to his original perfection and all the signs appeared on Dorian’s body
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Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement, which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes. This doctrine is most clearly summarized in the phrase 'art for art's sake'.
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