...Oscar Wilde Birth and early life Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, known for his barbed and clever wit, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted in a famous trial for gross indecency. Birth and early life Wilde was born into a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Elgee. Jane was a successful writer and an Irish nationalist, known also as 'Speranza', while Sir William was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon, and wrote books on archaeology and folklore. He was a renowned philanthropist, and his dispensary for the care of the city's poor, in Lincoln Place at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road. In June 1855, the family moved to 1 Merrion Square, in a fashionable residential area. Here, Lady Wilde held a regular Saturday afternoon salon with guests including Sheridan le Fanu, Samuel Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt and Samuel Ferguson. Oscar was educated at home up to the age of nine. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh from 1864 to 1871, spending the summer months with his family in rural Waterford, Wexford and at...
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...SMM Group 2 – Alex, Jaya, Rachel, Richard Oscar Myer Case Background Oscar Mayer is a leading manufacturer of processed meats in the American market because of its brand equity, successful history and effective product diversification within the meat market. It is focused on placing quality first and price second and its major goal is to boost convenience products in the processed meat market. Currently, the OM sales are declining, but the losses have been offset by a recent acquisition of Louis Rich (LR) a #1 turkey based line (#1), which is a cheaper and less fat meat more in tune with customer demand. The SWOT analysis given below presents a snapshot of the company’s internal and external background. Weaknesses Strengths High prices of OM products compared to Powerful brand reputation with retailers competitors and consumers Focused on product and competition, and Technology skills in R&D not on “customer satisfaction” Unmatched sales force No products on chicken market History as “get it done” organization Batting average for new products: 1 in 10 Strong business and distribution system Strong acquisition of a #1 turkey based line – cheaper and less fat “total division scorecard” – favorable Threats Opportunities The processed meat undergoing The need for products offering greater fundamental changes that will affect convenience growth in 3‐5 years. The growing emphasis on nutrition Red meat products (bologna...
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...Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct...
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...“Biography lends to death a new terror.” This is a quote from the famous writer of the 19th century Oscar Wilde, and the irony is that in this paper I will be shedding some light on the life and times of this controversial artist. Wilde was an 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. He was a supporter of the Aesthetic movement, which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social ideals. This movement is most clearly summarized in the phrase “art for art's sake.” The main focus of this paper will be Wildes early life, his various works and controversial lifestyle, and a bit of my personal opinion on this man and his effects on the world today. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16, 1854 to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, was a successful poet and journalist; she wrote many successful Irish verses under a pseudonym. His father, Sir William Wilde, was a surgeon and also a gifted writer, who wrote books on archeology and folklore. Oscar was educated at Portora Royal School until 1871, and then attended Trinity College in Dublin as well as Magdalen College in Oxford until 1878. It was during his stint in Oxford that he became an advocate in the aesthetic movement and while at Magdalen, he won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna...
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...Throughout the history of literature there have been countless names that have been forever etched onto the book cover of writing—William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath. But perhaps one of the more controversial and disputatious of them all would be the Irish writer, Oscar Wilde. Born in October, 1854, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde1 was and is feasibly one of the most revered Irish novelist, playwright, essayist and poet in the Irish literature and culture renaissance. With his rather comfortable beginnings—being the son of a revered oto-ophthalmologic surgeon who was knighted—Wilde seemed to have the whole world laid out before him. And in his adventures he carved out a name for himself, remembered today for his peculiar writing...
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...On October 16,1854 in Dublin, Ireland Oscar Fingal O'Flaherite Willis Wilde was born to parents William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee. William was an doctor of aural surgery and Jane was an revolutionary, she would trace her family all the way to the Italiane line of Aligheris, she was a write as well and published her works under the pen name "Spernza". Jane created a literary salon for herself and others to be free and express themselves through intellectual and artistic conversations. Oscar had an older brother named Willie and and sister named Isola who died at the age of 10. Unlike children his age scar would not expereince a normal childhood, with their home open to friends of his parents many of whom were artist, docotors, and intellectuals;...
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...Biography An exuberant nonconformist and controversial playwright, eminent author Oscar Wilde produced critically acclaimed literary works that defined the essence of late Victorian England. Posthumously recognized for his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and satiric comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde initially acquired criticism for his immoral and unconventional style of writing. Additionally, to his dismay, strife followed Wilde in his personal life as he was notoriously tried and incarcerated on allegations of “gross indecency” (homosexuality). Emotionally depleted post-imprisonment and stricken with poverty, Wilde was diagnosed with meningitis and died soon thereafter at the ripe age of 46. Born October 16, 1854 to father...
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...Oscar Wilde Often times in newspapers and magazines, a journalist decides to criticize society. This journalist, thinking that he or she is saying something profound, claims that society holds too much worry with outer appearances. They like to say that everybody is too materialistic and that life should not be about the aesthetics. This person believes that the generation they are currently in is the first to embrace such a culture. This journalist is wrong. What this person is referring to, is the Aesthetic movement that had its roots as early as the 1860s. This was a movement of artists and writers to spread the beauty of art in every sense of the word. Also called the Arts and Crafts movement, this was the time period that shook Great Britain into more refined focus on the portrayal of art in furniture, books, etc. The face of this movement was Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was a well-known poet and author and his adoption of the lifestyle was not a surprise to anybody. This was evident in many of his works. The only novel he ever published, The Picture of Dorian Gray was brimmed with the idea of aestheticism. Not only was the book an example of his beliefs, it reflected many other areas of his life as well. Oscar Wilde’s upbringing, personal beliefs, and behavior greatly influenced the ideas of indulgence, morality, and aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Picture of Dorian Gray is about a young boy (Dorian Gray) who moves to London. When he first arrives...
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...Which, make sense since in his writing he does not shy away from, attacking society, like society attacks him. As illustrated, in the book Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann, he includes a cartoon of how people perceived Wilde and quite a few of them were done like political cartoons. One, in particular, was a drawing of him dressed as a woman with lipstick. Further, the style of the drawing was unflattering and looked like it was meant to be rude (Ellmann 429). The image depicted could have been used to poke fun at his feminine side or his sexuality. Further, this show just how huge of a figure he must have been in his time, considering this was published in a newspaper. It also shows Wilde was an extremely open person in his lifestyle and writer, if people were actually able to pick up on the fact that he was not a regular cissexual heteronormative man, who submitted to...
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...Gray” which was immediately attacked in many papers for its homoerotic theme it had, which was considered immoral by Victorian standards and would come to play a huge role in his legal trials.( Ellmann) .He went on to write a play, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” which was a literary and financial success for Wilde which prompted him to continue writing plays. These included “ A Woman of No Importance”, “An Ideal Husband” and “The Importance Of Being Ernest”. In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas. They soon became lovers, both infatuated with each other until Wilde was arrest some years later. Wilde sued Alfred Douglas’s father for accusing him of homosexuality. The case was later thrown out, but Wilde was sentenced to two...
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...1913, Micheaux published his first novel, The Conquest. He found great success as a novelist and he began to inspire for greatness. Within a short time, Oscar published, The Forged Note, and The Homesteader. His books, especially The Homesteader, became popular across the United States to the point, George Johnson reached out to him to remake the book into a film. Johnson was booking manager of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, a successful black film production company. Ultimately, Micheaux turned that offer down and created his own firm, which was called “Micheaux Film and Book Company (Butters). Oscar’s first film, “The Homesteader” was released in 1919 in Chicago. He film was released during the era of silent film. This film was considered the first full-length film made by an African-American. Soon after the release of his first film, Oscar Micheaux continued to release films that not only the African American Community wanted to see, but other races wanted to also. His films led the way for other “race films” that told a more realistic story of black people and their lives. Micheaux’s films often dealt with controversial issues. (Kelly). Oscar’s films were based on two themes, the exposure of racial hostility and prejudice toward African Americans, and alternative depictions of black manhood (Butters). Unfortunately, Oscar Micheaux passed away on a business trip in 1951. It is important to know African American Filmmakers looked inspired to be like Micheaux, and this included...
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...As Romero's stature grew and his leadership for justice and peace deepened, his simple faith and pious devotion remained steady, and gave him a foundation from which he could take on the forces of death. To protest the government's silence in the face of recent massacres, he refused to attend the inauguration of the new Salvadoran president (Movie, Romero, 1989). The church, he announced, is "not to be measured by the government's support but rather by its own authenticity, its evangelical spirit of prayer, trust, sincerity and justice, its opposition to abuses" (Movie, Romero, 1989). While he embodied the prophetic role of the church, he also modeled that spirit of prayer, trust and sincerity in his everyday life. It was this kind of bravery...
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...represents Wilde’s brilliance in his writing, but also displays dark and personal aspects of his life. *****The story display the reflections of the author’s personality in the novel’s three main characters, Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton and Basil Hallward. Each character shows a kind of approach towards life which is similar in its philosophy to Oscar Wilde’s real life approach. **Oscar Wild says: “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be- in other ages, perhaps. Oscar has crafted Dorian Gray as a symbol of art which can truly be appreciated with no regard to morality and ethics.*** He is characterized by pure soul which was polluted by the vices in society and got transformed him into a selfish, who lives to seek pleasure. The author and the character mirror each other because, both had a pleasure seeking nature with no regards to ethics and morals in the society. . According to Oscar Wild Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. As you know Oscar Wild was homosexual and there was a man he loved, Alfred Duglas. I read several letter that were written form Oscar Wild the letter were rather romantic. And his view about pleasure that it only thing to live is is further strengthened by what he wrote in his letter to Alfred,*** “I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience... But to...
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...Oscar Wilde as a person, was described as a”flamboyant and vivacious playwright of the 19th century” (Campbell, Samuel. "Best Oscar Wilde Plays." Stage Milk. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.) for the unyielding wit and cleverness displayed in most of the pieces of literature that he wrote. In “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Wilde expresses this form of cleverness through each of the characters that he created in the short play which only consists of three acts. Humor and irony are used throughout the play to assist, enhance, hurt or help the characters that are portrayed throughout each act in the play. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a play based around a man named Jack, whom as an infant, was abandoned by his mother and left in a basket. He was adopted by a man named Thoman Cardew shortly after being found abandoned.Now as an adult, Jack is at the pinnicle of his class and one of the most important people within his community. However, at the beginning of the first act, Jack is introduced as “Ernest”. Even through the continuation of the act, he i referred to as Jack on script, but is Ernest while in character. Oscar wilde used irony and humor to help introduce, enhance, hurt and develop the characters throughout the play....
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...I want to bring up a theme that I noticed from the beginning of the book to the end of the book; the use of the color white. Dorian's direction from a figure of innocence to a figure of degradation can be seen by Wilde's utilization of the color white. White ordinarily represents purity and innocence, as it does when Dorian is first presented. It is in fact "the white purity" of Dorian's childhood that Lord Henry finds so dazzling. Also Basil conjures whiteness when he discovers that Dorian has gave his innocence, and, as the artist looks at the ruined painting, he cites a scriptural verse from the Book of Isaiah: "Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow." But the times of Dorian's blamelessness are finished. It...
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