The Gender Awareness of Oscar Wilde: Comparison between His Women Characters and Men Characters

Oscar Wilde has been well known in two aspects: an aesthete and a homosexual. This paper intended to indulge in his gender awareness by the comparison between his women character depiction and men character depiction from one of his novels, the Picture of Dorian Grey , and three plays of his: An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere’s Fan and Salome. In the end, we got a conclusion that his personal life attributed to his ambiguous awareness on the women characters.