![]() I do believe Bosie when he says he suffered immensely from this whole ordeal. There are other people, such as Ross and Harris, who have played a part in this tale and had their own agenda and their reasons to attack or defend what they chose to attack and defend. Bosie is portrayed everywhere as a vicious man, a spoiled brat that corrupted Wilde and then abandoned him to his misery, a myth which I have always known to be untrue or, at the very least, a very corrupted version of the truth. The truth is not, I don’t think, in either of the pieces, though I do feel for Bosie when he says he has been made the villain of this story because it’s true. If I have Interested you in this story, go watch Wilde (1996) with Jude Law and Stephen Fry. Bosie feels angry at De Profundis, he feels angry that he will be remembered mostly because of his relationship with Oscar Wilde, which is, to this day, still true. A love that was corrupted by society and then by their friends, their enemies, and everyone else in between. Wilde made no effort to hide it, probably because, as I said before, his letter was meant for Bosie only, but even Bosie in his attempt to downplay the whole thing as a “vice”, he can’t help but add that devotion he felt between his lines. In both De Profundis and Bosie’s work, we see a lot of pain and contempt with one another, but most of all one can read the lines the love they had for each other. I see this as an inexcusable and distasteful flaw in society. It nevertheless managed to bring tears to my eyes, because of many reasons which I will state.īosie feels the need to excuse his relationship with men, especially his relationship with Oscar Wilde because he lived in an era where said relationships meant prison time and public shame. Bosie’s work was obviously meant to be read, which makes it more bearable. As it was written for one pair of eyes only, one feels wicked while reading, like one is entering an intimate realm in which we were not meant to be part of. Many things may have been said about that letter, but no one can deny it is a confession of pure and utter love. De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s letter to Bosie while he was in prison, is a beautiful work of art, a piece that conveys suffering and redemption, and quite simply, the purest form of love from the one who wrote it. it is only natural, therefore, that one story can take different turns and styles depending on its author. The “ truth” is nothing more than a word, subjective, and to each person, there is one truth. it becomes even harder when said truth is tainted by countless sets of ideas, words, and prejudices. Now, it is very hard to know the absolute truth. My Friendship With Oscar Wilde was written after many years and upon reflection, and we get the truest and rawest version of the events as Bosie remembers him. If you aren’t familiar with this tragic love story I won’t bore you with the details, but I advise you to look it up. As a matter of fact, he despised Wilde so much, he wrote a book that he later confessed to being filled with lies due to the hatred he felt towards him. Ten years after Wilde’s death, and blaming him for his own downfall, Bosie started to despise him. ![]() Their love story was turbulent, and it was the major cause of Wilde’s imprisonment and some of the most beautiful phrase ever written. He was a poet and a journalist, but he is famously known as the man who ruined Oscar Wilde. Perhaps as interesting as the facts he reveals and the opinions he records about Dickens and George Eliot, politics and the civil service are the judgments he passes on his own character.If you know about Lord Alfred Douglas or Bosie, chances are you hate him. Trollope looks back on his life with satisfaction. His efforts resulted in over sixty books, a sizable fortune, and fame, and his autobiography. and disciplined himself to write 250 words every fifteen minutes has become part of literary legend. ![]() How he paid his groom to wake him every morning at 5:30 a.m. But he had inherited his mother's determination, and managed later to carve out a successful career in the General Post Office while devoting every spare moment to writing. He was the victim of vicious bullying at Harrow and Winchester. Trollope was born in 1815, the product of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father who was socially ambitious for his sons. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. ![]()
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