Research Paper On Oscar Wilde

His stay at Oxford also helped him to chisel his intellectual thinking about this life -outlook and aestheticism. His association with John Ruskin, Walter Pater and Mahaffy proved fruitful for him in many ways the undernoted extracts vouch for this assessment:
The man under whose spell was Walter Pater… His stolid appearance and austere method of life seemed to emphasise the paganism of his writings. He was, in theory at any rate, an out-and-out hedonist.'
The doctrine he preached was an exaltation of personal experience above all restrictions, 'as the ultimate object of life,' and he summed it up by declaring that "the theory or idea, or system, which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest

One was his pride in the hey-days of glory and fame. The second factor responsible for Wilde's downfall was the stubborn and egotistic attitude of Marquess of Queensbury, father to his third son, Lord Alfred Douglas with whom Wilde had close relationship for quite some time. While the personal factor of homosexual relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas tilted the court proceedings against Wilde, nonetheless the incompatibility of life outlook between Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensbury was no less responsible for the disastrous drama beginning with the tiling of a libel case by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury in March 1895. In this case, Wilde vas the loser. Then, as a reprisal, following the proceedings started by the Marquess of Queensbury Wilde was arrested and was put on trial on charges of homosexuality in two phases. At the first trial, April 26 to May 1, no decision came out because of a hung jury, and the second trial, May 20-25. 1895. Wilde was convicted and sent to prison for to two years with hard

Homosexuality more than its actual facticity was deviously conjured up to damage and destroy Oscar at the height of his glory. The Marquess of Queensbury when he strangely abnormal man with vindictiveness as his forte. Had it not been so, Wilde would not have to face opprobrium, suffering and imprisonment. The tussel between Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensbury meant the fight between the anti-estahlishnarian and the diehard custodian of the English establishment. From the following extract, it is very much clear that more than Wilde's being degenerated from his association with Lord Alfred Douglas — which is not very conspicuous, for Wilde maintained the tenor of his creativity despite the social estrangement and legal punishment uptil the closing phase of his life; it is the peculiar personality of the Marquess which paved the way to the catastrophic turn in Wilde's