Oscar Wilde was a 19th‑century Irish writer famous for his sharp wit, stylish plays, and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray , whose life was marked by dazzling success and a tragic fall after imprisonment for his sexuality.

Who Oscar Wilde Was

  • Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854 and died in Paris on 30 November 1900.
  • He became a leading figure of aestheticism , promoting “art for art’s sake” and cultivating a flamboyant public persona in Victorian society.

Big Works You Should Know

  • Wilde is best known for:
    • Novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), attacked as immoral at the time but now considered a modern classic.
* Plays: _The Importance of Being Earnest_ , _An Ideal Husband_ , _Lady Windermere’s Fan_ , celebrated for brilliant dialogue and social satire.
  • He also wrote poetry (Poems , 1881), fairy tales like The Happy Prince and Other Tales , and the long prison‑poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898).

Rise, Scandal, And Prison

  • Wilde’s comedies dominated London stages in the mid‑1890s, making him a star of the West End and a symbol of decadent wit.
  • In 1895, after a feud with the Marquess of Queensberry over Wilde’s relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was prosecuted for “gross indecency” for homosexual acts, convicted, and sentenced to two years’ hard labor.

Last Years And Death

  • Prison ruined his health and finances; released in 1897, he lived in exile in France under the name Sebastian Melmoth, writing little besides The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
  • Wilde died in Paris in 1900 from meningitis at age 46, reportedly still making dark, stylish jokes about the wallpaper in his shabby hotel room.

Why Wilde Still Feels “Trending”

  • Wilde’s epigrams (“I can resist everything except temptation”) circulate constantly online, keeping his voice alive in memes, quotes pages, and forum signatures.
  • Modern discussions often focus on him as a queer icon, a critic of hypocrisy, and a writer whose elegant style still shapes how people joke about class, desire, and respectability today.

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