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Research Paper On Oscar Wilde

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The victorian individual that I researched was Oscar Wilde. He was extremely important to the Victorian Era because he challenged the standard philosophies of art and literature, moving the culture forwards while creating a lasting legacy that would affect people’s lives for many years following. Oscar Wilde is most definitely a realist. Specifically, he is an aestheticist, or in other words someone who believed that art and literature should not be dragged down by alternative meaning and lessons, but instead focus on the beauty of the work, and working to make it pleasing to the senses instead of to the moral compass. This philosophy fits under the category of realism because in some sense, the addition of lessons and deeper meaning can be
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