Oscar Wilde belongs to the Victorian Epoch. The Industrial Revolution changes the concepts of the leisure, work and art piece. In this period of time, the artists questioned the art piece: What serves the art for?, What type of finality has?

We can find the aesthetics and the pre- raphaelist (ART FOR ART’S SAKE).

The works of Wilde reflect the upper classes of the Victorian Epoch. The objective of Wilde is that the text has a moral and the espectator has to the captivate this moral, this idea. The most important is that readers or public delight but learning something.

Many great Victorian writers, from Carlyle to Matthew Arnold, from Ruskin to George Eliot, raised their voices against the abuses of their age, against and infinity of affronts to human dignity. They showed up the abuses of the Industrial Revolution and of rampant capitalism; they variously attacked economis, political, social and cultural ills, and castigated shoddy moral attitudes prevalent in Victorian England . Wilde was not essentially in disagreement with their goals, or out symphathy with their protest, for all the apparent irresponsibility of the young dandiest in this dialogues and plays. Indeed, his own opinions were in some ways very advanced for this time- his sympathic with feminism, for example,or this espousal of and individual political attitude mixing an avant- garde version of socialism with anarchism. He was of his time and altogether with the great Victoians in being moved by dramatic inequalities, by poverty, oppression, and hunger.