Activity 14
Summaries
Write a brief summary (6 lines) of the following Oscar Wilde´s stories. Include one picture for each book.
1) The picture of Dorian Gray:
Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life.
Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences, while staying young and beautiful; all the while his portrait ages and records every sin.
2) The importance of being Ernest:
The Importance of Being Earnest is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde’s comedies. It’s the story of two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure. The elaborate plot ridicules Victorian sensibilities with some of the best loved, and indeed bizarre, characters to be found on the modern stage. Wilde originally wrote it in four acts, but during the first rehearsals George Alexander persuaded him to shorten it down to three.
3) An ideal husband:
If Sir Robert Chiltern is now Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,is because he has kept secret the origin of his fortune: a fraudulent transaction for which he sold state secrets to Baron Arnehim.All English high society and its peers of the House of Commons have a respectable and honest man.Symbol of honesty and future political competition seems bright,always counting on the support of his wife, Lady Chiltern, who considers him the ideal husband.However, appearances are misleading and social order is based solely on individual and collective lies.
4) The selfish giant:
A giant had a very large garden with soft green lawn and beautiful flowers. The childrens want to play there, but the giant don't let them, so he established the eternal winter in his garden and the trees forgot to bloom. But one day, the love of a child affected the hard heart of the giant and at the time he understood the egoism was bad, he removed the winter and let the spring return to his garden and to his life.
5) The Happy Prince:
The protagonist of the story is the golden statue of a prince full of valuable ornaments, which is at the top of a column from where you can see the whole city;a swallow perches on the statue and sees that the prince is crying for the injustices he can observe from his position,because when he lived he always made him believe that everyone was happy and they had hidden that there were also people who had problems,the swallow will help you in your mission to help the neediest then the swallow takes the rich and gives the poor but in winter the swallow dies from the cold.
The Importance of Being Earnest is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde’s comedies. It’s the story of two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure. The elaborate plot ridicules Victorian sensibilities with some of the best loved, and indeed bizarre, characters to be found on the modern stage. Wilde originally wrote it in four acts, but during the first rehearsals George Alexander persuaded him to shorten it down to three.
3) An ideal husband:
If Sir Robert Chiltern is now Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,is because he has kept secret the origin of his fortune: a fraudulent transaction for which he sold state secrets to Baron Arnehim.All English high society and its peers of the House of Commons have a respectable and honest man.Symbol of honesty and future political competition seems bright,always counting on the support of his wife, Lady Chiltern, who considers him the ideal husband.However, appearances are misleading and social order is based solely on individual and collective lies.
4) The selfish giant:
A giant had a very large garden with soft green lawn and beautiful flowers. The childrens want to play there, but the giant don't let them, so he established the eternal winter in his garden and the trees forgot to bloom. But one day, the love of a child affected the hard heart of the giant and at the time he understood the egoism was bad, he removed the winter and let the spring return to his garden and to his life.
5) The Happy Prince:
The protagonist of the story is the golden statue of a prince full of valuable ornaments, which is at the top of a column from where you can see the whole city;a swallow perches on the statue and sees that the prince is crying for the injustices he can observe from his position,because when he lived he always made him believe that everyone was happy and they had hidden that there were also people who had problems,the swallow will help you in your mission to help the neediest then the swallow takes the rich and gives the poor but in winter the swallow dies from the cold.
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