Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

We will complete watching the movie and have a class discussion about the work tomorrow. Students who haven't updated their Blogs with Shakespeare's Othello script will do so as tonight's home assignment. In addition, everyone will research and post the following for 3rd marking period Blog as we are about to embark on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray:

• Aestheticism: the idea that the pursuit of beauty is the primary goal of art and that art need not reflect any moral, social or religious concerns.
  
• Decadents: refers to a personal trait and, much more commonly, to a state of society. In a person, or used to describe a person's lifestyle, it describes a lack of moral and intellectual discipline.
  
• Victorianism: is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century.
  

Biography on Oscar Wilde.

• Born: October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland
  
• Wilde's education: Oscar was educated at home up to the age of nine. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh from 1864 to 1871. After leaving Portora, Wilde studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874. He was granted scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies from 1874 to 1878.

• Married: Constance Lloyd

• Children: two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886)

• Lovers: Florance Balcombe

• Crimes/Arrests: He was arrested for "gross indecency" under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 In British legislation of the time, this term implied 'homosexual acts not amounting to buggery'.

• Tragedies:

• Death of wife: 1898 following spinal surgery

• Literary Works:
  

-A Florentine Tragedy
-A Woman of No Importance
-An Ideal Husband, Salome
-The Dutchess of Padua
-The Importance of Being Earnest
-Lady Windermere's Fan

• His Death: November 30, 1900 in Paris, France

• Any particular quotes that you like:

-Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde~

-I am not young enough to know everything.
~Oscar Wilde~

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde