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Byron and Wilde: Life Imitates Art

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Part one:
In module 2, we explored the ways in which Byron creates a thesis about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in his poem "To a Lady who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with His Own And Appointed At a Night In December to meet him in The Garden."
His thesis relies on the notion that life imitates art, which is an inversion of the mimetic proposition that art imitates life.
With this in mind, answer the following questions in 150 words or more:
Is a similar proposition (that life imitates art) also present in Wilde's "The Decay of Lying"?
Introduce a quote from "The Decay of Lying" and analyze it to show how it supports the argument that life imitates art.
Apply this quote by Wilde to a passage from Byron. Be sure to clearly explain how and why the Wilde quote applies to the Byron passage.
Part two:
Propose your own example of life imitating art.
Website to poem: https://astrofella(dot)wordpress(dot)com/2014/08/03/the-decay-of-lying-oscar-wilde/

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MODULE 5 DISCUSSION: BYRON AND WILDE
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The world seemed like a stage to Wilde, and life seemed like a performance. The argument "life imitates art more than art imitates life" from Wilde’s The Decay of Lying has continued to heat up. It is argued that one's life results from copying something or someone somewhere, the instance of Romeo and Juliet expressing their love for each other through art. It is as if one is wearing a mask, and therefore whatever people see is not the reality. People cannot think for themselves, so they depend on nature proved in "The Decay of Lying."
Life poses many chances whereby art can express itself; taking the case of Romeo and Juliet, people are encouraged that the...
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