Wilde (Facts & Preface)

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English Literature Mind Map on Wilde (Facts & Preface), created by hannah_simons on 12/04/2013.
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Wilde (Facts & Preface)
  1. Preface
    1. 'The artist is the creator of beautiful things'
      1. 'Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault'
        1. 'Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope'
        2. 'There is no such thing as a moral or amoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all'
        3. Facts
          1. Same time of literary success, had affair with young man (Alfred Douglas)
            1. Alfred's father sent note to Wilde saying "Oscar Wilde: Posing Sodomite" - Wilde sued him for libel
              1. Evidence presented of Wilde's homosexuality - homoerotic passages from his literary works, as well as love letters to Douglas
                1. Arrested of "gross indecency" and convicted in 1895 and sentenced to two years in prison
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