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OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - sculpture
      - poetry
      - painting
        
        different forms of the same truth
- - - - after their publication he was invited for a speaking tour in the USA
  - - - Lord Arthur Savile's crime
      - The happy prince and other tales
      - The Canterville Ghost
  - - - his first and only novel
        
        damaged his reputation: the former considered immoral, the latter obscene
  - - - A woman of no importance (1893)
      - An ideal husband (1895)
      - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
      - The importance of being Earnest (1895)
  - - - a tragedy written in French
- - - - Dorian makes use of everybody, his insensitivity is the cause of some deaths. When the painter sees the portrait, Dorian kills him. Later, he decides to free himself of the portrait as witness of his spiritual corruption and stabs it but, in doing so, he kills himself.
        
        When Dorian dies, the portrait returns to its original purity and Dorian's face becomes 'withered, wrinkled and loathsome'
  - - - the ideal of youth, beauty and innocence, a living Adonis as described and painted by Basil Hallward
      - he is actually immature and he is ruined by vanity and selfishness
    - - intellectual, brillian talker and sharp critic of institutions, influences Dorian so much that Dorian's speech seems to mimic his style
    - - attracted by Dorian's beauty and innocence, he doesn't want to exhibit the picture because he is afraid it reflects the strange attraction he feels for him.
      - Dorian considers his painting responsible for his tortured existence and kills him. Basil is the artist destroyed in a sacrifice for art.
  - - - every excess must be punished
      - there is no escape from reality
    - - symbol of the bad conscience of the Victorian middle class
    - - symbol of bourgeois hypocrisy
- - - - Actually, Ernest is Jack Worthing, adopted at an early age by Mr Thomas Cardew who made him guardian of his granddaughter, Cecily, under the charge of the governess Miss Prism. Jack explains to be Jack in the country, but he has invented an alter ego, Ernest, who lives in the city, as a pretext to avoid his responsibilities. Even Algernon confesses he has invented a friend, Bunbury, who lives in the country and whose invalidity allows him to get away from London social obligations
        
        Jack wants to marry Gwendolen but he has to overcome her mother, who doesn't accept he is a foundling. Algernon wants to marry Cecily and flirts with her in the guise of Jack's younger brother Ernest, but when Jack announces the death of his brother, creating a comic situation. Meanwhile Gwendolen goes to the country to find out more about Jack, whom she knows as Ernest, and discovers that Cecily is engaged to an Ernest Worthing, too.
        
        Finally both men succed in marrying the women they want because Lady Bracknell allows her nephew Algernon to marry Cecily because she is the heiress of an immense fortune, and thanks to Miss Prism, the governor of the eldest son of her sister, Mrs Moncrieff, it turns out that Algernon and Jack are brothers and his real name is Ernest.