From the depths

Life is successive problems, as much as the deep-rooted problem is far from the abyss, from which meanings emerge that add newness to life. And Oscar Wilde's life was a unique problem of its kind. It is the problem of the sensitive soul driven upward by ambition, so it perceives meanings of life that sharpen its wit and ignite its emotions. When it achieves its goal in this, it stands hesitant at a dangerous point: it has fulfilled its share of emotional response and complete knowledge within the scope of the known and familiar, so does it stop at that limit? Nature is a mixture of good and evil. It is embodied in human nature, which combines compatibilities and contradictions. Human nature is represented in instinct, with all its sensations and emotional outbursts. Man has been able to refine this instinct and develop its aspects within the framework of his concepts of life, and to the extent of his understanding of its meanings; however, he neglected a large side, which people have considered the degraded side, so they did not knock on its door out of modesty, nor did they try to discover what lies beyond it; thus, a part of the secrets of the soul remains shrouded in mystery and hidden behind a curtain of shame. Socrates said: Know yourself, and you will know the universe! So, is it enough to know oneself only through what is apparent, which people have searched for and turned upside down? Then what is new about that? Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and died in Paris at the age of 46. His life was filled with success as well as scandal. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, then at Magdalen College in Oxford, initially gaining attention as the founder of a philosophy of beauty and as a writer of humorous stories for the theater. Today, he is considered the one who revived theatrical traditions that came from the works of Congreve and Sheridan. However, his most famous literary works are his poem about Reading Prison (1898) and his letter "D. Pervondi" (1905). These two pieces are closely related to the subject of his imprisonment due to his violation of amendments to criminal law. Huxley Pearson, the translator of his life, said about that poem: it is "the most intense of its kind in English literature." As for his long speech to Lord Alfred Douglas in prison, it is certainly one of the best writings on the subject of revealing personal behavior in a scientific research style. Until recently, the full text of this speech had never been published.