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The Duke asks a friar in the town, Friar Thomas, to give him refuge; the Duke does not intend to leave town, but rather he intends to stay and observe Angelo at work. He says that he gave Angelo power because he knew the city had to be cleaned up, and the Duke didn't want to do it himself. But then, he adds that he doubts that Angelo is actually as stee

- one was a reaction epitomized by the moral teachings of Carlyle and the social novels of Dickens
the other was a withdrawal into contemplation and concern with art and beauty - an attitude epitomized by the Pre-Raphaelite Movement Aestheticism and Decadence.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray.
When Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray, the book was received with a lot of protest and criticisms. The suggested homosexuality, the amoral nature of the story, the description of luxury and moral indifference shocked ‘Victorian’ England. The novel is an expression of anti-Victorian aestheticism, but suffers from

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That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

THE TEXT

Shakespeare is considered the undisputed master of the English sonnet form, and while he has writ

• 1981 he mat Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”) > homosexual affair
• Douglas’ father forced a public trial >> Wilde WAS SENT TO PRISON FOR HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES
• In prison he wrote THE PROFUNDIS, a long letter to Bosie
• THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL (1898)
• After the prison: poverty, his wife refused him, exile in France.
His conceptions

From an early age he showed an interest in mathematics, mechanics and physics. At nineteen, Training for an engineering career, he attended the Technical University at Graz, Austria and from there went to the University of Prague to study philosophy. At Graz he first saw the Gramme dynamo, which operated as a generator and as electric motor, and he conc