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I had no clue Oscar Wilde was anti semetic! I read up on it a bit and I assume you have evidence from the Picture Of Dorian Gray, which I hadn't read. I saw someone saying that the character in it is a parody and at most Wilde was insensitive since some of his closest friends and supporters were a jewish couple, but I'd really like to hear your input on that matter

Some quotes:

From The Picture of Dorian Gray:

A hideous Jew, in the most amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my life, was standing at the entrance, smoking a vile cigar. He had greasy ringlets, and an enormous diamond blazed in the centre of a soiled shirt…

For some reason or other, the house was crowded that night, and the fat Jew manager who met them at the door was beaming from ear to ear with an oily, tremulous smile. He escorted them to their box with a sort of pompous humility, waving his fat jeweled hands, and talking at the top of his voice. Dorian Grey loathed him more than ever.

This is a recurring character who is shown to bow and scrape before anyone who he thinks might be able to give him some advantage, and who tries to emulate English nobility but gets it wrong because he is ‘the wrong sort.’

Harry, the Jewish theatre owner, is also shown to be taking financial advantage of a young actress’s debts to keep her ‘bound to him.’ Harry’s insistence that he wants to ‘introduce’ her to Dorian is a clear implication that this theatre owner is also a pimp.

It is a ‘Jewish doctor’ who is responsible for infusing the blood of others into a man to make him totally evil.

Some people have argued that he was parodying George Eliot here, and that since ‘he had a Jewish friend,’ specifically a novelist who he called ‘The Sphinx,’ gosh, he couldn’t be antisemitic (I know, I groaned out loud too), but read on, friends! It only gets worse from here!

Keep reading

moriarty221b

I am not gonna try to defend Oscar Wilde here but I think a little History here could be helpful :

Within the Nineteenth century, antisemitism was an international idea, which gave birth to the Protocole of Zion (1903, three years after Wilde's death), which, even proven as an hoax, was still used during WWII as proof of the Jews' will to control the world. To that day, some people still believe a Jewish conspiracy exists ( some theory says, for exemple, that during 9/11, the Jews in the World Trade Center knew about the oncoming catastrophe and had time to escape before the deadly end [which, historically is false as Jews appears on the list of victims]).

If you are interested about this view about Bristish society during this time, I invite to read this, from Cristopher S. Nassaar, which help to contextualise the Picture of Dorian, and will help you to decide if Wilde is speaking for himself or as a satire of the Victorian society of the time.

In De Profundis, which is an essay some might find extremely Holy, some might even think Wilde is comparing himself to Jesus, he says "Everything to be true must become a Religion.". I think that someone talking about religion, talking about agnostism, would not purposely be anti-Semitic.

In The soul of Man under Socialism, Wilde refers to Jesus as a "leper whose soul is divine", which could be considered highly offensice to refer to Christ as a "leper" or even a "beggar".

I don't personally think we can define Oscar Wilde as anti-Semitic or not anti-Semitic : anyone willing to read his entire work, from poems, essays, plays, short stories to letters and the many biographies, there is one thing we can't deny : Oscar Wilde is a paradoxal man.

Nowadays, some of his words might sound out-dated, some still sound incredibly modern.

I won't suddenly labelise him as the Devil, but just a man of his time, a time where people would not have the same point of you about society, religion, gender, sexuality etc...and a man who loved to shock, to take the contre-pied.