Wednesday, December 16, 2009 | |

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

There is another blog post about Gross Indecency forthcoming, but for now I want to leave everyone with a quote.

The play ends with a prose poem by Oscar Wilde called "House of Judgment." "House of Judgment" is about man coming before God. God recalls everything man has done...bad things, and says "surely I will send thee into Hell. Even into Hell will I send thee.
And man cried out: 'thou cannot.'
And God said to man: 'wherefore can I not send thee to Hell, and for what reason?'
'Because in Hell I have always lived.'"

I thought that was a really powerful ending for a play.

Go in peace.

1 insight(s):

Leedle said...

Yes. Beautiful. It bears much pondering.