Oscar Wilde Research Paper

On October 16, 1854, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born to a well respected Irish family in Dublin. His father, Sir William Wilde, MD, was a highly acclaimed doctor and philanthropist. He was the leading oto-ophthalmologic surgeon in Ireland and was later knighted for his work.
Despite all the accomplishments that William Wilde had achieved, his son viewed his mother as the greater remodel, Lady Jane Francesca Elgee. She was a poet who gained recognition as a prominent writer during the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848. Lady Jane, throughout her Oscar’s early years, would have countless of book parties where all the guest were literature finatics. She allowed her sons to attend these parties, but they were to only listen and not

It only grew as he indulge himself with Greek and Roman works when he attended Portora Royal School. The teachers there acknowledged this interest and Wilde soon gained many prizes from his studies. Upon his graduation in 1871, he was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin, and then another scholarship in 1874 to Oxford University in England. After graduating Oxford in 1878, he remained in London to focus on his career in poetry. It was in 1881 he debuted his book Poems, a collection of written poetry. Critics did not praise Wilde that much, causing him to took a break from writing. In the meantime, Wilde began to embrace the aesthetic movement and started to perform lectures on the topic. He emphasized on how people should create “art for art’s sake”, a saying popularized by French philosopher Victor Cousin. Wilde toured across Europe and America to present his lectures. It was at one of these lectures that he met his soon-to-be wife, the Englishwoman Constance Lloyd. Together they bore two sons and their lives were peaceful, until Wilde met Canadian journalist Robert Ross, who was known for being an open homosexual. Ross became immensely ardent to pursue Wilde for himself and he succeeded. He became a male mistress to Wilde in secret, since homosexuality was illegal in that time period and it had very severe