Oscar Wilde
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Throughout his life, Oscar Wilde was many things, a novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, and homosexual. Oscar authored his writings during the Victorian Age and most of his works reflect that. But this is not the root of Wilde's social extremism, which is found in his support of the "art for art's sake" movement, and his assertion that the needs of a person take priority over the needs of a society. Wilde wrote about the poor in relation to charity, beauty in relation to the heart, and pride in relation to humility. "Wilde lived his life never once abandoning his beliefs or choicesHe expresses the idea that we all exist and only some of us really live. Some of us live because we're pushing for a different world to the one that surrounds us," (Sreenan).
On October 16, 1854, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born to Dr. William and Lady Jane Francesca Wilde. Oscar was the second of three children. The first was William Robert Kingsbury Wills Wilde and the third was Isola Francesca Emily Wilde...