I was reading about Oscar Wilde's life because I was most scandalously tricked into reading one of his plays and therefore fell into the trap of his writing. Honestly that guy is a genius. His writing is so funny. I love the writing style.

If you think his books are genius wait till you read about his life, I say it is equally dramatic. His early years does not seem all that remarkable. But after he married Constance Lloyd things got really interesting. He got famous after he wrote a few plays and books. Yet at his height of popularity he met and fell in love with Lord Alfred Douglas! Absolutely atrocious, don't you think?

I mean at the time of 1890, that was unthinkable. Homosexuality?! Well this guy went into a laws suit with Douglas' father and ended up being sue by the marquess instead for "gross indecency" meaning showing homosexuality in public, etc, being completely indecent int public's eyes.

Poor guy got imprisioned for two long years and then became bankrupt because of the law suits. If that was not bad enough, Lord Alfred Douglas actually abandoned Wilde at times when he was most needed. Wilde died poor in Paris in 1900, while Douglas denounced his homosexuality and married a chick.

In a way you can saw Wilde brought it upon himself, he is a flamboyant person, and I imagine, if he is alive today at my school, I would probably dislike him for extravagent ways, but as it is, since I never met him and I never know him, I am happy.

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