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Bibliography of Oscar Wilde: A Search for the Beauty
Love is possibly the most powerful four letter word known for the human. That is a feeling and emotion which is really remarkable that makes it nearly impossible to put the meaning into words. Despite the complexity, many authors have dared to write about love in their masterpieces. Therefore, Wilde is one of such talented writers, who connected different evocations of objects, feelings and colors, with the creativity and critical view, due to highlights a universal topic such as love, which can clearly be recognize in the brief stories such as The Selfish Giant, The Fisherman and his Soul and The Happy Prince. Furthermore, Oscar Wilde was a victim of love and according to the way of thinking the purest love that exists in this cruel word was the uranistic love (Arcara, 2013). Nevertheless, society of that time saw it necessary to condemn Oscar Wilde not only for the sexual relations with other people from the same sex. Besides, they were against the way of working and they were jealous about the prodigious, public and affronted apologetic discourse.
Moreover, the masterpieces of Oscar Wilde may create turmoil at the time of reading due to the particular use of imagery, language and symbols. Further, taking into account the ability of Wilde, it can be observed in the way that manipulates language and surpasses expectation. For instance, one of the strategies that Wilde used at the time of writing, it was the use of the paradox to absorb the credibility of common beliefs (Selleri, 2018). Likewise, the most characteristic aspect of Wilde is suggesting that it is not exactly writing in a particular style to be confusing or smart. In addition, Wilde is mostly writing that way to make a larger point (Selleri, 2018). In this way, Wilde was struggling to reinvent the way that usually wrote. Furthermore, the peculiar style was a principle of Hellenistic limitation, which results in a style as triumphantly modem as one of Godwin’s chairs (North, 2010).
Nonetheless, the stories A House of Pomegranates collections and The Happy Prince are flattered as fairy stories, they are stories written for parents, to tell, to their children. Particularly, the role of adults was to charge children, whose bases where significant in the plot. In addition, the story, The Selfish Giant present the goal of the kid is to teach the giant how to be the best parent, and the reward of the giant for his humanity and tolerance is a divine death revelation (Wilde, 1887). In that way the children cared can be magically and mysteriously converted into an icon of Christ helping the giant going to Paradise.
Additionally, it is important to highlight that the style of Wilde in fairy tales was eruptive and present a special fondness for complex phrases and eccentric word combination (Davis, 2009). Moreover, Wilde specially wrote the short stories in metaphorical form to attack those who criticize this type of style. Besides, Wild present criticism in form of dialogue or story and that style was full of paradoxes (Beardsley, 2010). Therefore, the type of dialogue that Wilde liked most was the argumentative one, although no evidences of argumentation can be found in the dialogues.
To conclude, Wilde sacrificed the whole life in search of perfection of beauty. Furthermore, the main topic proclaimed was an ostentatious and bright lifestyle, while being in favour of maverick visions where homoerotic tendencies could be seen (Beibei, 2018). In addition, the deliberation about the way of working was often adversary, due to the sexual orientation which was going against the mainstream of Victorian values. Besides, the values were tighten to moral intransigence and the usefulness (Beibei, 2018). Nevertheless, Oscar Wilde is one of the precursor and brilliant literary writer for many poets, due to the origin of a new aestheticism in literature.
