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Oscar Wilde - Coggle Diagram
Oscar Wilde
Aestheticism
Art for Art's sake
Celebration of beauty
Rejection of didacticism
Life as a work of art
Life
Early Life
Born in Dublin 1854
Studied at Trinity College
Oxford Scholarship
Public Persona
Fashionable dandy
Famous for aphorisms
Lectures in USA
Downfall and Death
Imprisoned for gross indecency
Affair with Lord Alfred Douglas
Died in Paris 1900
Works
Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Canterville Ghost
The Happy Prince
Plays
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Importance of Being Earnest
Salomé
Prison Writings
De Profundis
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Plot Elements
Portrait by Basil Hallward
Eternal youth wish
Portrait shows signs of vice
Dorian stabs portrait
Major Themes
Cult of beauty
Theme of the double
Victorian hypocrisy
Eternal nature of art
Moral
Punishment for excess
Cannot escape reality