Biography of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in the city of Dublin, Ireland. He was born into and lived in the prejudiced and etiquette-ridden years of the Late Victorian Age. Actions and language of the individuals were required to conform to rigid rules of behavior and ethics. Even the canons of art and literature were laid down and had to be adhered to. It was this state of affairs that Wilde made it his mission in life to break down, and it is a remarkable tribute to his character that he largely succeeded in doing so (Holland 5).Oscar Wilde was the second son of the famous eye surgeon William Robert Wilde and Jane Frances Wilde, more commonly known by her literary name as Speranza. Jane was noted for collecting Irish folk stories in the western hills in the late 1870s (Jacobus 753). A brother, William Robert Kingsbury Wills Wilde, born September 26, 1852, preceded Wilde. He was followed by a sister, Isola Francesca Emily Wilde who was born on April 2, 1857. The Wilde household was an eccentric, sometimes scandalous, but unquestionably learned environment in which to grow up. At this period Dublin was a city whose cultural interests were a mixture of the cosmopolitan
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Approximate Word count = 1877
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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