Oscar WildeBeauty is not subjective. It's one of the few things in the world that can't be denied. Things are either beautiful or they are not. The art is beautiful. Art is not always meant to be interpreted, sometimes you just need to admire it for its beauty, not for what it means. Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer best known for his book The Picture of Dorian Gray and for writing plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, wrote this and almost based the previously mentioned book on the overall ideal that beauty must not mean more than just beauty. I think Oscar Wilde's greatest strength is his play on words and often use of caricature which really enlivens what he writes. He lived during the Victorian era, when art was to be used to teach and influence the minds of society, so, while writing the book The Picture of Dorian Gray, he strove to prove a great point and contradiction with the era in which he was. live, as well as the way he uses Dorian's two best friends to show the horror of the bigotry he lived in, when he was arrested and imprisoned for being gay. Oscar Wilde's use of irony, juxtaposition and symbolism truly portrays his utter disgust towards the era he lived in by rebelling and contradicting the use of art as a tool and the intolerance he was surrounded by during the Victorian era. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. He is well known for the previously mentioned book and many plays. Wilde won numerous prizes, including the Newdigate Prize for the best composition in English verse by an Oxford undergraduate. At the time he published the book The Picture of Dorian Gray, he was strongly criticized for the fact that he lacked a sense of "morality" which in the middle of the paper they saw his looking at the wrist of that wrinkled old corpse. The symbolism on the painting is much more than just aging. Because in Wilde's time art was believed to mean so much more when it didn't have to, art could not be admired for its true beauty. After Dorian wished to remain young as his painting aged, HE became meaningless, became what Wilde considered true art, and the painting, as contradictory as it may seem, now meant much more than mere beauty. It signified all of Dorian's sins and misdeeds. It represented all of Dorian's repugnance, and now Dorian no longer meant anything, it had become art. It didn't make sense. I'll finish it soon Mrs. Reed, sorry for the late work, it's been hard keeping up with school and what's been going on at home, I'm very sorry and I hope you've enjoyed reading the roughest of my drafts.- Max Herrera