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23 Feb EN2004
23 Feb EN2004
23 Feb 2023
Wilde
- Public personality
- Surrounded by innuendo and scandal (ie. homosexuality)
- “Raises no principle”
o “No clear moral message, ambiguous”
o Suggests that Earnest defies traditional conceptions of Victorian art
o Art was meant to teach lessons and educate the audience
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- “Creates its own canons and conventions”
- “Willful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality”
o Too much of Wilde in the play, egotistical
o Assumes that it is a failure of a work to reveal the author
o Celebrity grew because of technological developments (ie. photographs)