Who is Oscar Wilde?
Writer, activist, socialite, and fashionista? Is a man simply definable by his best work, his best remark, or his final verdict? Oscar Wilde was a man of many talents and infamous traits. But who really was the man who became a central figure and image of aesthetics and homosexuality in the Victorian era? Who is the human figure behind the wit?
Wilde's Aesthetic Versus The Victorian Aesthetic
"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." - Written by Oscar Wilde in the Preface of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Quintus 560)
Homosexuality in the Victorian Era
In a society in which something's never talked about, scandal is easier to pull off than you'd think.
The Victorian Legal System
Since the beginning of time, there have been those with power and those without. Particularly in the environment of a governmental legal system, people have exploited their power to push their own agendas to their personal benefit. Victorians were no different.