Wilde World

[mezimraky]

i don't need therapy i get to witness oscar wilde editing his manuscript almost in real time

[sacredvampires]

a relationship should be 50/50. He paints me a portrait of my eternal youth; that portrays all my sins and worst qualities. And then I stab him in my attic.

[perfeqt]

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

— Oscar Wilde

[alicerovai]

Oscar, Robbie, Bosie and Constance (what the hell am I doing) from Grey Crow

[aviewtodeath]

Animal Farm, a book criticising totalitarian governments, is getting a visual adaptation where there are silly animals selling their crops to those they're supposed to hate.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a book written by an author who got imprisoned for sodomy, is getting a visual adaptation where the two characters with clear homoromantic undertones are turned into brothers.

Dracula, a book about a group of friends that explore the themes of antagonism and Victorian anxieties, is getting a visual adaptation where the count falls in love with one of his rape victims.

Wuthering Heights, a book that beats the reader over the head with a bat about how the POC protagonist wants to be privileged and white, is getting a visual adaptation with a white person as the protagonist and a POC as the one he envies.

The Odyssey, a book about a man from Ancient Greece trying to get home from war, is getting a visual adaptation coated in a "Hollywood" aesthetic that rejects accurate armour and casting.

2026 is not a good year for classic literature fans all around.

[minasdigitaljournal]

Thinking about Oscar Wilde and

"Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death’s house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is."

[whydousernamesevenexist]

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

[mournfulroses]

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

[philosophybits]

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

— Oscar Wilde, Salomé

[lets-get-lit]

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. 

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[dawnnotfound]

somebody had probably done this before but

[thetriboulet]

oscar wilde really spent a whole chapter yapping about perfume and cool rocks and then devoted about three sentences to the murder of one of the central characters, and honestly? i see the vision

[seraphim-eternal]

Death must be so beautiful. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. You can help me.

You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.

Oscar Wilde

[ehlihr]

Dorian gray sketch

[lavenderapollo]

rip shakespeare, you would’ve loved the picture of dorian gray

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Fisherman and his Soul by Oscar Wilde

Source : book-graphics.blogspot.com

Artist : Geoff Taylor

[lavenderapollo]

not to continue to bring up hamlet in the context of dorian gray but the parallels are soooo good i mean come on

dorian - hamlet: self-centered, unhealthily fixated on life, death, youth and how all things we hold dear die the quickest, bad at being nice to women

basil - horatio: gay, in love with the titular character, watching the person he lives for devolve into madness and pain without being able to help

sybil vane and her family - ophelia, laertes, polonius: literally their scenes together in the beginning before jim goes to australia are perfect parallels for laertes’ talking to ophelia before he goes to france. like, INSANELY similar. and then when sybil dies…

i also think it’s interesting that, of all the plays sybil performs in, she never plays ophelia. i could be wrong, but im like 80% sure that dorian never mentions her in hamlet.

lord henry is an interesting case because you could read him as rosencrantz/guildenstern, given his friendship with both basil and dorian, and i don’t disagree with that reading at all. but he sews the first seeds of doubt in dorian, he’s the reason dorian starts to freak out about the impermanence of youth. to me, he functions as the ghost. i mean, think of it:

basil/horatio meets henry/the ghost in the first scene, dorian/hamlet comes along and basil/horatio BEGS for him to be careful because he doesn’t want his best friend to suffer corruption. henry/ghost and dorian/hamlet have a private conversation which alters the latter’s outlook and mental state, and when he returns, he isn’t the same.

i’m so,,, i’m so normal about this.

also sybil’s suicide/not suicide. AGHHHHHHH