Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic , who is considered one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. He wrote nine plays, one novel, and…

Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic , who is considered one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. He wrote nine plays, one novel, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays. One of his most famous works is "The Picture of Dorian Gray", . This novel summarises the basic principles of Aestheticism. The Aesthetic movement that developed in late 19th-century Europe and Britain, emphasised the primacy of "art for art's sake" rather than for its social, political, or moral "value". In Wilde's novel, the beautiful Dorian lives the life of the ideal aesthete, embracing all forms of hedonism in . As he leads the life of decadence, behind closed doors his magical portrait conceals the horrors of his sins, his painted image becoming older and uglier while he remains unspoiled, young and charming. Dorian's path of excess is a destructive one, . Wilde's story is not a straightforward tale of aesthetic pleasure, but, like the Aesthetic movement, it questions the bourgeois morality of the 19th century, which required art to serve a higher purpose. 1. pursuit of new sensations 2. that leaves many victims 3. that wasn't right 4. which was published in 1890