I find you wilde-ly enthralling
My favorite author of all time, Oscar Wilde. I love his "smart ass" characters they're charming and entertaining and provoke oneself to marvel at the relevancy of their fastidiousness. My most recent and most beloved read thus far The Ideal Husband.
It's a play about a couple who are happily married and in love. The gentleman is the most upright man you could imagine, however, as the play progresses his transgressions begin to air. The wife is confronted with the idea that her husband isn't the man she dreamed him to be.
I love Oscar Wilde because he touches on so many things that seem so relevant today. I imagine the concerns for society's lack of substance was an issue at the time when the world was entering the industrial age and consequentaly becoming more of what it is today. These changes in the way of life presented itself in the outliers of society and now it's proliferated throughout the modern world and has become the modus operandi. What Wilde terms idleness has become a way of life. I think reading books from this period grounds me. Have you ever read something and instantly felt more human? It's what his books do for me. Maybe I'm a fan of stuffiness?! But you would be surprised there's a lot more to stuffy old books.
The epitome of the whole purpose of the novel is summed up by Lord Goring the forever bemused bachelor,
It's a play about a couple who are happily married and in love. The gentleman is the most upright man you could imagine, however, as the play progresses his transgressions begin to air. The wife is confronted with the idea that her husband isn't the man she dreamed him to be.
I love Oscar Wilde because he touches on so many things that seem so relevant today. I imagine the concerns for society's lack of substance was an issue at the time when the world was entering the industrial age and consequentaly becoming more of what it is today. These changes in the way of life presented itself in the outliers of society and now it's proliferated throughout the modern world and has become the modus operandi. What Wilde terms idleness has become a way of life. I think reading books from this period grounds me. Have you ever read something and instantly felt more human? It's what his books do for me. Maybe I'm a fan of stuffiness?! But you would be surprised there's a lot more to stuffy old books.
The epitome of the whole purpose of the novel is summed up by Lord Goring the forever bemused bachelor,
"All I know Gertrude is it takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love."
It highlights the fact that this world isn't made perfect and although humans (The good ones) try our best to reach those ideals the fact of the matter is that perfection or the ideal are merely conceptual and in order to be truly love life and our partners we have to be willing to love regardless of the imperfections.
That's all I got. I've decided to read all of Wilde's works. I considered even naming my first born Oscar, but what if I have a girl? Just kidding Oscar is a terrible name.
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