Oscar Wilde plan: Biography

After a few years of marriage, alienation began between the spouses. It is quite possible that the cause of this was the writer’s untreated venereal disease. Oscar Wilde begins to live separately from his wife and children, and then changes his orientation. One of his first male partners is Robert Ross, who worked for a long time as the writer’s personal secretary and confidant. In 1891, an acquaintance took place that played a fatal role in the life of the writer. The young Marquis Alfred Douglas came to visit him and expressed his admiration for the writer’s just published novel. Soon a strong friendship began between the two aesthetes, which grew into passion.

Court and prison
The men stopped hiding their relationship; they often appeared at social parties together. Bosie Douglas, as Alfred was called by all his acquaintances, had a narcissistic type of character - he tried to subordinate everyone and everything to his will. Oscar could not resist the young man's whims and constantly indulged him. His father, the Marquis of Queensberry, soon learned about his son Bosie's connection. The shocking news prompted him to begin pursuing Wilde. The last straw for the writer’s patience was an open note that was given to him by the Marquis during a meeting of the Albemarle Club. In it, Bosie's father accused Wilde of sodomy.
Outraged, Oscar sues his opponent for libel, which becomes a mistake for him. The prepared marquis proves the correctness of his accusation. After the trial is completed, a counter-trial begins, the purpose of which is to accuse Wilde of homosexuality. The Marquis won the case, and the writer was sent to prison. Oscar Wilde received the maximum punishment existing in those years: two years of hard labor. Many of his friends, including Bosie, turned their backs on him. The wife and children left the country and changed their last name. A few years later she died in Italy after an unsuccessful operation.
Death
After returning to freedom in 1897, Oscar immediately hurried to leave his homeland and went to Paris. These years he lives on the allowance that his wife sends him after the sale of all the personal property of the Wilde family. In the French capital, he begins dating Douglas again, but their relationship becomes strained. Taking the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth, Oscar began literary activity and wrote the famous work of the last years of his life, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.”
At the beginning of 1900, Oscar fell ill with an ear infection, which, with his body weakened by imprisonment, provoked the development of meningitis. Brain inflammation was the cause of the writer’s death on November 30 of the same year. Wilde was buried in one of the cemeteries in Paris, and one decade later his grave was moved to the Père Lachaise cemetery. At the writer’s burial site, a monument in the form of the head of the Sphinx was erected.