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Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in1854. he was educated in Dublin and at Oxford ,where he excelled as a student .

At Oxford he came under the influence of Walter Pater and was liked to the Aesthetic Movement which proposed that art was not meant to instruct or provide moral social or political guidelines. The phrase art of arts sake captured the aesthetic belief that art was an end in itself. When he finished his studies in mobbed to London ,where his wit, irony and brilliant conversational skills opened the doors to fashionable society for him . He applied the aesthetic ideals to all areas of his life. He wore flamboyant clothes, adopted extravagant poses and considered eccentricity to be the outward appearance of genius. He became a celebrity long before he wrote a single word of literary significance. In1884 Wilde married Constance Lord . the couple had two children .In 1891 he published his only novel ,THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY ,which aroused scandalized protest against its content ,considered immoral .After ,he wrote and produced a serials of hilarious comedies full of brilliance , and shrewd social observations. In 1891, he met Lord Alfred Douglas with whom he had a homosexual relationship . He was prosecuted, and sentenced to two years hard labour for homosexual acts. Everyone who had admired him , his own family rejected him .The sentence also ruined him financially. After his release, he left England and wondered around Europe under a false name, living on borrowed money . he died in Paris a the age of forty-six Sake->love Captured->symboled areas->aspects wore->the past of wear out word->exterior wit->humour skills->abilities,capacities

arous->to caus meet->incontr provide->give

belief=ideal , irony=humor, areas=aspects, outward=exterior, excellent=perfect

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