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This 6 page paper discusses the issues in De Profundis by Oscar Wilde. Emphasis is placed on the issue of humility and how Wilde views the concept. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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leveled at him he still continued to produce plays such as An Ideal Husband, and later to write to his friend, Sir Alfred Douglas, the work De Profundis. It would
be during his imprisonment that his work, De Profundis would serve to offer insight into the human condition and the role that humility plays. In 1892, after Wilde has
begun to distinguish himself in Europe, a book called, Degeneration, by Max Nordau was published. In this work, which was highly controversial itself, he stated that certain characteristics, such as
are often found in artists, musicians, and writers, particularly those with impressionistic and expressionistic tendencies, were indicative of a degenerate nature and should not be tolerated for the sake of
the greater good. He writes that such degenerates are egomaniacal and as such are incapable of empathy. "Preoccupied with themselves, they are insensitive to the feelings of others, lack
public spiritedness, a heightened sense of outrage at the suffering of others, and of course they lack a sense of honor"(Nordau 260). As such, then, he seems to be pointing
his finger squarely at Wilde, providing a checklist, as it were, of characteristics and traits which are noted in the degenerate nature.
This, of course, did not set well with the Marquess of Queensberry, since Sir Alfred Douglas, his son, was involved closely, and intimately, with Oscar Wilde. A letter to his
son states: "Your intimacy with this man Wilde must either cease or I will disown you and stop all money supplies. I am not going to try and analyse
this intimacy, and I make no charge; but to my mind to pose as a thing is as bad as to be it. If I thought the actual thing was
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