In his newfound spiritual awakening the writer is determined to see beauty in his experience. He needs to accept it as a part of his life in order to be happy and in order to be free. The writer then talks about how people advised him to forget about prison once he gets out but he realizes now that would be wrong because it would mean that he would be haunted by the feeling of injustice that he was in prison in the first place. Religion, morality nor reason can help him, only his sorrow.

In order to reinvent himself, to reinvent his individuality he needs to accept his sorrow. Having spent some time in prison he realizes that what he needs to do is be humble, to take part in humility. He then starts talking about his realization of having ruined himself with his reckless behavior and indulgence in perverse pleasures of life. He starts off the letter by talking about his suffering and the pain he felt having to go to prison. The writer writes a letter directed to someone personally. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. GradeSaver, 23 June 2018 Web.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Next Section Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Previous Section Quotes How To Cite in MLA Format Jazvin, Elmina. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. He realizes that someone like him will always be an outcast to society, but Nature, as a nurturing source of healing, will heal his wounds and purify his mind and soul. In his sorrow he has found himself and retrieved his soul he is himself now and ready to face whatever awaits him. In his final pages of the letter, Wilde accepts his fate not as his ending but a wonderful new beginning. Wilde concludes the letter by looking forward to new beginnings and accepting that he has no place in society, only in Nature.

He discovers the beauty and a source of healing in Christ and the life of Christ. He analyses himself, his heart and his mind, and discovers the source of his anger, the source of his loss of individualism, the loss of his own soul at last. It was difficult for him at first, but as an artist whose purpose is influencing people and touching and healing their hearts, he has to do that for himself now. He accepts with a sense of self-reflecting that he is the only one to blame for what happened. In the first part, he addresses his way of life that led him there. In his letter addressed to his friend, or his audience in general, Wilde confesses his inner struggle of accepting the horrible fate he had to face of going to prison.

Wilde, here, is talking about his despair of being imprisoned and thinking about Christ. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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