TRAGEDY OF OSCAR WILDE
Literary genius hated women but turned homo-sexualist
By Late Shri Abani Mukherjee, M.A.
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"Unnatural things breed unnatural consequences” said Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde wanted to reverse the general conception of man and woman wanted to rebuild an instinct which is primal and eradicable. A woman is half part of humanity a complement to man and both of them need each other. But Oscar's opinion was different His romance did not lay seize on any woman but on a boy named Alfred Douglas and lasted lifelong. Thunder clouds cataracts waterfalls could not deter her free play from the first inception to the end. She was not passive on looker but active champion and great actor of vehemence and resonance, Her range of voice and modulated pitch covered all grounds of life physical, mental ethical and social.
Physical:—‘A boy is more beautiful than a girl said Oscar, Fat hips and udder breasts minimise the beauty of a woman whereas slim lines add special charm to boys. The appeal the boys make is higher and spiritual but the sex prevents us realising this truth.
Mental: — Mentally the girls are very poor. They have no intelligence. Jealous and full of vanities. It is impossible to form an intellectual companion with them. They always remember the trivial to forget the important. A girl is not made for love, She is made to be a mother and when maternity touches her she loses all beauty She is defaced and defiled. He speaks of his wife, in a vein which is simply detestable. "When I married my wife she was a beautiful girl, white shining as a lily with dancing eyes, gay and rippling with laughter”—But with the visit of maternity all forms and grace had vanished she became heavy shapeless deformed. She dragged herself in the house with uncouth misery ... Oh nature! It is disgusting. It takes beauty and defiles it. It defaces ivory-white body with vile cicatrices of maternity. It befouls the alter of the soul and love is not possible to the artist unless it is sterile”. He mixed up love and beauty. He gave away ethics to aesthetics and lost all touches of humanity when he wrote “I tried to be kind to her but she was sick always and Oh! I cannot recall it. It was all loathsome. I used to wash my mouth and open the window to clean my lips in the open''. God save him! A man speaks against his wife in maternity when all sympathies and compassions will rain in torrents.
How can we desire what is shapeless and deformed and ugly desire is killed by maternity and passion buried in conception. Says Oscar. He wanted to change an order which life has established through years and years, How can life tolerate this negative passion to overrun the supreme passion of life-the Humanity. Has life ever tolerated it?
He confuses sins of soul and sins of flesh. His idea of sins of flesh is nothing compared to the sins of soul which are shameful. Tolerance chastity repent abstinence self-denial all virtues recorded by .life are shameful. But the devil in Oscar never dark life's holy water. He has nourished by different factors. Oscar's heritage is not worth mentioning. Father was sort of minotaur using chloroa form to violate the honour of one Miss Trovers while under his care as a patient and mother a woman of Colossal vanity and pride. She gave extraordinary airs for her second rate verses.
Public School: — His education at public school breathed in him many vices and evidences are there that while at school and college this reverse sex-instinct was born in him. Fulding has long ago remarked that "public schools are nurseries of vices" and this remark proved so true to Oscar.
Greek Learning: — His too much obsession with Greek classics made him a pagan. Visible world alone existed for him Greek sensuality and love for plastic beauty flared u/p in him in such a way that while watching students bathing in the river the beautiful white green nude figures of grace and ease appeared before him Sullivan Edward writes that while he matriculated he was already a good classical scholar and in 1874 he got the gold medal for the Greek. Greek was his life blood and flooded every channel of it.
Lack of religious faith: — He had no religious faith. Like Nietzsh and Gautier he was out of sympathy with Christianity. He said that it teaches hard mentality. It limits passion and impoverishes life. It weakens the main spring and narrows the realm of beauty. Sense of sin and repentance are weaknesses to be avoided. Chastity he says, "Is a shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity," What more could he say against religion an established code of life-recognised by all men whether they want to be great in the presence of God when they die or have the greatest share or pleasure when they live? Life still tolerated. But Oscar went further; he wanted to end her, The very source of Procreation he wanted to eradicate. He started advocating "what is the difference between one form of sexual indulgence and another? What do you call vice is vice. It is as good to me as it was to Caesar, Alexander, Mechal-Anglo and Shakespeare It does not carry temptation.
It may be a malady but is allied with the highest nature. "It is a nobler form of passion than the normal fertile are”. He was not unashamed of his reverse sex-instinct but was proud of it. Harris revealed it as his considered opinion in chapter xxii of his biography on Oscar Wild sherard does not admit it but treat it as an offence committed when Oscar was driven mad by a disease. If the lotter was true there was nothing to be afraid of. But a critical study of Oscar proves Harris statement bordering more on truth and danger lays there, A man of his genius if starts advocating a cause on ethical and physical grounds it may contaminate the whole of life and humanity. Life could tolerate no more. She bent herself to punish him.
Oscar never looked out of himself. His child like self-confidence proved fatal to him. He paid no heed to the cares of human affairs. He became a law unto himself. He built up his own realm of epigrims epithiets desire to please and astonish-" He never dived deep into .life. That flaring up of passion that enables a man to see universe in a thing was not his passion. He lived only for the beautiful and not for good and common weal. He left Goethe in the middle and went to Balzac and Bandelair started declaring "No taste should be ostracised." Gifted with picturesque phrases and caustic wit in it he never thought of any other side, but carried away his one way traffic with beauty and lost all connections with humanity, common weal and good.
Master of life Lord of life could do what he liked. But soon lost his way to be handcuffed and sent to prison for two years hard labour to be scorned by the passer by lashing him with wild insults. His wit did not find any argument to justify this punishment but wit of life found it. What right he had to change an order created by life? Is it not a challenge and fight charioted on the wings of vanity and pride? Is it not all out marshelling of his erudition against the Himalayan strength of life.
Romance always in plies opposite sex. What of that if the reverse was practised occasionally by the Greeks? So were many vices- They had all dropped out of life. Life gave him a chance to reform but the devil in him was too adamant and rebellious up to the end.
It is the nature of people to worship those who have been made to suffer horribly. Movement started after his death to defend Oscar and it has at present gained enough strength. It is wrong to say that ''He was punished for his popularity and his prominence, for the superiority of mind and wit: he was punished by the envy of the journalists and by the malignant pedentary of half civilized judges." He was punished because he challenged life. The artist wanted to be superior to humanist in him and any passion which has never tried to dominate It has failed. Tolstoy, Dickens, Tagore, Pastarnak all great men have proved it through their literary works. But Oscar was driven mad by classics. He had never an opportunity to educate himself through living-experiences except once when he was in prison and Ballad of reading goal and Deprofundis were the results. If only this experience would come to him earlier and combine with his vast erudition and genius he would have probably eclipsed Bernard Shaw in the realm of drama. But as fate would have it was too late. Still he has earned pity of mankind and will always be remembered as "Tragic Figure of imperishable renown."
Physical:—‘A boy is more beautiful than a girl said Oscar, Fat hips and udder breasts minimise the beauty of a woman whereas slim lines add special charm to boys. The appeal the boys make is higher and spiritual but the sex prevents us realising this truth.
Mental: — Mentally the girls are very poor. They have no intelligence. Jealous and full of vanities. It is impossible to form an intellectual companion with them. They always remember the trivial to forget the important. A girl is not made for love, She is made to be a mother and when maternity touches her she loses all beauty She is defaced and defiled. He speaks of his wife, in a vein which is simply detestable. "When I married my wife she was a beautiful girl, white shining as a lily with dancing eyes, gay and rippling with laughter”—But with the visit of maternity all forms and grace had vanished she became heavy shapeless deformed. She dragged herself in the house with uncouth misery ... Oh nature! It is disgusting. It takes beauty and defiles it. It defaces ivory-white body with vile cicatrices of maternity. It befouls the alter of the soul and love is not possible to the artist unless it is sterile”. He mixed up love and beauty. He gave away ethics to aesthetics and lost all touches of humanity when he wrote “I tried to be kind to her but she was sick always and Oh! I cannot recall it. It was all loathsome. I used to wash my mouth and open the window to clean my lips in the open''. God save him! A man speaks against his wife in maternity when all sympathies and compassions will rain in torrents.
How can we desire what is shapeless and deformed and ugly desire is killed by maternity and passion buried in conception. Says Oscar. He wanted to change an order which life has established through years and years, How can life tolerate this negative passion to overrun the supreme passion of life-the Humanity. Has life ever tolerated it?
He confuses sins of soul and sins of flesh. His idea of sins of flesh is nothing compared to the sins of soul which are shameful. Tolerance chastity repent abstinence self-denial all virtues recorded by .life are shameful. But the devil in Oscar never dark life's holy water. He has nourished by different factors. Oscar's heritage is not worth mentioning. Father was sort of minotaur using chloroa form to violate the honour of one Miss Trovers while under his care as a patient and mother a woman of Colossal vanity and pride. She gave extraordinary airs for her second rate verses.
Public School: — His education at public school breathed in him many vices and evidences are there that while at school and college this reverse sex-instinct was born in him. Fulding has long ago remarked that "public schools are nurseries of vices" and this remark proved so true to Oscar.
Greek Learning: — His too much obsession with Greek classics made him a pagan. Visible world alone existed for him Greek sensuality and love for plastic beauty flared u/p in him in such a way that while watching students bathing in the river the beautiful white green nude figures of grace and ease appeared before him Sullivan Edward writes that while he matriculated he was already a good classical scholar and in 1874 he got the gold medal for the Greek. Greek was his life blood and flooded every channel of it.
Lack of religious faith: — He had no religious faith. Like Nietzsh and Gautier he was out of sympathy with Christianity. He said that it teaches hard mentality. It limits passion and impoverishes life. It weakens the main spring and narrows the realm of beauty. Sense of sin and repentance are weaknesses to be avoided. Chastity he says, "Is a shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity," What more could he say against religion an established code of life-recognised by all men whether they want to be great in the presence of God when they die or have the greatest share or pleasure when they live? Life still tolerated. But Oscar went further; he wanted to end her, The very source of Procreation he wanted to eradicate. He started advocating "what is the difference between one form of sexual indulgence and another? What do you call vice is vice. It is as good to me as it was to Caesar, Alexander, Mechal-Anglo and Shakespeare It does not carry temptation.
It may be a malady but is allied with the highest nature. "It is a nobler form of passion than the normal fertile are”. He was not unashamed of his reverse sex-instinct but was proud of it. Harris revealed it as his considered opinion in chapter xxii of his biography on Oscar Wild sherard does not admit it but treat it as an offence committed when Oscar was driven mad by a disease. If the lotter was true there was nothing to be afraid of. But a critical study of Oscar proves Harris statement bordering more on truth and danger lays there, A man of his genius if starts advocating a cause on ethical and physical grounds it may contaminate the whole of life and humanity. Life could tolerate no more. She bent herself to punish him.
Oscar never looked out of himself. His child like self-confidence proved fatal to him. He paid no heed to the cares of human affairs. He became a law unto himself. He built up his own realm of epigrims epithiets desire to please and astonish-" He never dived deep into .life. That flaring up of passion that enables a man to see universe in a thing was not his passion. He lived only for the beautiful and not for good and common weal. He left Goethe in the middle and went to Balzac and Bandelair started declaring "No taste should be ostracised." Gifted with picturesque phrases and caustic wit in it he never thought of any other side, but carried away his one way traffic with beauty and lost all connections with humanity, common weal and good.
Master of life Lord of life could do what he liked. But soon lost his way to be handcuffed and sent to prison for two years hard labour to be scorned by the passer by lashing him with wild insults. His wit did not find any argument to justify this punishment but wit of life found it. What right he had to change an order created by life? Is it not a challenge and fight charioted on the wings of vanity and pride? Is it not all out marshelling of his erudition against the Himalayan strength of life.
Romance always in plies opposite sex. What of that if the reverse was practised occasionally by the Greeks? So were many vices- They had all dropped out of life. Life gave him a chance to reform but the devil in him was too adamant and rebellious up to the end.
It is the nature of people to worship those who have been made to suffer horribly. Movement started after his death to defend Oscar and it has at present gained enough strength. It is wrong to say that ''He was punished for his popularity and his prominence, for the superiority of mind and wit: he was punished by the envy of the journalists and by the malignant pedentary of half civilized judges." He was punished because he challenged life. The artist wanted to be superior to humanist in him and any passion which has never tried to dominate It has failed. Tolstoy, Dickens, Tagore, Pastarnak all great men have proved it through their literary works. But Oscar was driven mad by classics. He had never an opportunity to educate himself through living-experiences except once when he was in prison and Ballad of reading goal and Deprofundis were the results. If only this experience would come to him earlier and combine with his vast erudition and genius he would have probably eclipsed Bernard Shaw in the realm of drama. But as fate would have it was too late. Still he has earned pity of mankind and will always be remembered as "Tragic Figure of imperishable renown."
