This presentation contains complete details about Oscar Wilde and his life. It was a group presentation. It also contains some of the details of his major works.

2. Group
Members
Hafsa Sana
Ghaza Ejaz
Zia Ur Rehman
Raiha Haider
Mahnoor Tariq

3. Personal Life
of Oscar
Wilde
Presented by: Hafsa Sana

4. Early Life
Full Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Birth: 16 October 1854 , Dublin , Ireland
Father: Sir William Wilde
Profession: Irish eye
and ear surgeon
Mother: Jane Francesca
Profession: Poet And
Journalist
Siblings:
Brother William and
Sister Isola

5. Personal Life
of Oscar
Wilde
• Education
– Portora Royal School
– Trinity College Dublin
– Magdalen College Oxford

6. Personal Life
of Oscar
Wilde
Involved in an aesthetic
movement; “Art for Art’s Sake”
After graduation, he moves to
Chelsea, London.
In 1581, “Poem” first collection
poetry.

7. Personal Life of
Oscar Wilde
Marriage
• 29 May 1884: Married to Constance Lloyd.
Children
• Two Sons: Cyril Holland , Vyvyan Holland

8. Personal Life
of Oscar
Wilde
Divorce
– 1893
– Due to Oscar’s Affair with “Lord
Alfred Douglas”
Sons
– Cyril(son) Died
• WWI in France
– Vyvyan(son):
• Also involved in WWI but
survived.
• Became an author.
• He was convicted for 2 years.

9. Death of Oscar Wilde
• November 30, 1900 : Died of Meningitis

10. Literary Life of Oscar
Wilde
Presented by: Ghaza Ejaz

11. He is known
for
Brilliant Wit
Flamboyant style
Infamous Imprisonment for
homosexuality

12. CHILDHOOD
He studied in a famous institutions on scholarships which show him as a good
student and, he was graduated scoring 1st division.
In school , he was awarded with prizes for the top classics and drawing.
Already at the age of 13 , his tastes in clothes were dandy's which play the major
role in some of his works.
His favorite subjects in school were:
Greek Roman
He was a bright and bookish child

13. NOTABLE
WORKS 1891
The picture of Dorian Gray.
1891 ( highly criticized by
Victorian critics and
considered as immoral writing
but now considered in one of
his notable works).
1895
The Important of being
Earnest.

14. AWARDS
• Foundation Scholarship (1872)
• Berkeley Gold Medal (1874)
• Demyship Scholarship (1874)
• Newdigate Prize (1878)
• Master Mason
• Retro Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

15. WRITING
CAREER
After graduating, he moved to London to
pursue his dream of writing. Later on, he
also traveled to New York to embark on
an American Literature Tour , deliver 140
lectures there only in 9 months.
RAVEENA (1878) , his first verse
composition he wrote studying in Oxford
College, awarded Newdigate Prize (1878).

16. WRITING
CAREER
• His writing activity became as intense and as
inconsistent as his life had been for the
previous six years. From 1887 to 1889 Wilde
edited the magazine Woman's World. His first
popular success as a fiction writer was The
Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). The
House of Pomegranates (1892) was another
collection of his fairy tales

17. WRITING
CAREER
• His greatest talent was for writing plays, and he
produced a string of extremely popular
comedies including 'Lady Windermere's Fan'
(1892), 'An Ideal Husband (1895)' and 'The
Importance of Being Earnest' (1895). 'Salomé'
was performed in Paris in 1896.

18. SEXUALITY
OF OSCAR
WILDE and
Impact on
Writings
- In 1886 , Wilde
became a
practicing
homosexual.
- Attack on
Victorian Moral
Code but
inspiration for his
writing.
-Wilde believed
in the criminal
mentality .
-Lord Arthur
Savile's Crime
from Lord Arthur
Savile's Crime
and Other
Stories. (1891)

19. WRITING CAREER
-The Original version of The Picture of
Dorian Gray emphasized on the murder of
painter Basil Hallward by Dorian.
-His only book of formal criticism,
Intentions (1891), restated many of the
views that Dorian Gray had emphasized,
and it points toward his later plays and
stories. Intentions emphasized the
importance of criticism in an age that
Wilde believed was uncritical. For him,
criticism was an independent branch of
literature, and its function was important.

20. CONCLUSION
After Wilde was released from
prison he lived in Paris, France. He
attempted to write a play in his
style before his imprisonment, but
this effort failed.
Victorian norms and culture
caused the downfall for his career
and his life . He died in Paris on
November 30, 1900 at the age of
46 yrs.

21. Features of
Author’s Age
Presented by: Zia Ur Rehman

22. The Late Victorian
Era
• In 1859 Charles Darwin had published On
the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection.
• Historians, philosophers, and scientists
were all beginning to apply the idea of
evolution to new areas of study of the
human experience.
• Traditional conceptions of man’s nature
and place in the world were, as a
consequence, under threat.

23. The Late
Victorian Era
Realism continued to flourish, however,
sometimes encouraged by the example of
European realist and naturalist novelists.
The flowering of realist fiction was also
accompanied, perhaps inevitably, by a revival of
its opposite, the romance.
Gothic novels and romances, utopian and early
science fiction.
Oscar Wilde was, who helped in a full-scale
romance revival

24. The Late
Victorian Era
• The social role of women
• Grant Allen (The Woman Who Did, 1895),
Sarah Grand (The Heavenly Twins, 1893), and
George Egerton (Keynotes, 1893). The heroines
of such texts breach conventional assumptions
by supporting woman suffrage, smoking,
adopting “rational” dress, and rejecting
traditional double standards in sexual behavior.

25. The Late
Victorian Era
• Ache of modernism was seen in Thomas
Hardy’s most notable masterpiece Tess of
D’Urbervilles.

26. Aestheticism
• The emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led
by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John
Ruskin.
• Art for art sake
– This meant that art from this particular
movement focused more on being beautiful
rather than having a deeper meaning
• Literature, music and art

27. Other
Movements
• The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Marxism

28. Writing Style of
Oscar Wilde
Presented by: Raiha
Haider

29. WRITING STYLE
WANTS TO
HAVE
PERFECTION
HIGHLY
SYMBOLIC
SATIRES WITTY
DIALOGUES
FANTASY
REALISM

30. Elements
used by
Wilde
Irony and paradox
Exaggeration
Satirical style
Long and complex dialogues
Inner thoughts

31. Major Works of
Oscar Wilde
Presented by: Mahnoor Tariq

33. The Canterville
Ghost
• Characters
– Sir Simon Canterville
– Virginia Otis
– Duke of Cheshire
– Hiram Otis
– Mrs. Otis
– Mrs. Umney
– Lord Canterville

34. The Canterville Ghost
• Plot Overview
– “The Canterville Ghost” is a study in contrasts. Wilde takes an American family, places
them in a British setting, then, pits one culture against the other. He creates
stereotypical characters that represent both England and the United States, and he
presents each of these characters as comical figures, satirizing both the unrefined
tastes of Americans and the determination of the British to guard their traditions. Sir
Simon, the ghost, misunderstands the family just as they misunderstand him, and, by
putting them against each other, Wilde clearly emphasize the culture clash between
England and the United States.

35. The Canterville Ghost
• Themes
– American and British Cultures
– Tradition and Heritage
– Innocence
– Shame
– Money
– Peace

36. The Happy Prince
• Characters
– The Happy
Prince
– The Swallow
– Town Councilor
– A Seamstress
– The Playwright
– Little Matchgirl
– God

37. The Happy Prince
• Plot Overview
– This story is about a Prince. When the prince was alive, he was very happy. After his
death, a big statue of his was erected on a pedestal. From there, the statue of Prince
could see the entire city and at that time he saw the miseries of the people. He saw
the poor people, the homeless, their hunger, and starvation. The Prince was sad to
see all these miseries, sadness of the people.

38. The Happy Prince
• Themes
– Love
– Sacrifice
– Deceptive Appearances
– Hypocrisy of the ruling class
– True Friendship

39. The Model
Millionaire
• Characters
– Hughie Erskie
– Laura Merton
– Alan Trevor
– Colonel Merton
– The Beggar
– Mr Gustave
– Naudin

40. The Model Millionaire
• Plot Overview
– Hughie Erskie, a charming young man wants to marry Laura Merton.
– However, he has no money. All his business goes badly.
– The Colonel(Laura’s Father) doesn’t want her to marry a poor man.
– Hughie visits his painter friend Trevor.
– He is painting a portrait of a beggar.
– Hughie feels sorry for the poor man and gives him some money.
– Few days later, Trevor tells Hughie that beggar was a millionaire (Baron Haughberg). That Baron helps
Hughie with money and Hughie and Laura live happily ever after.

41. The Model Millionaire
• Themes
– Appearance
– Generosity
– Friendship
– Gratitude
– Love
– Compassion
– Charity
– Commitment
– Struggle

42. ANY QUESTIONS?