characters

Lord Canterville: He was the owner the canterville chase, he came

From the English family. His family has been the owner of canterville chase for three centuries. He sold the haunted house to Mr Otis after warming him about the ghost.

Mr Otis: The American ambassador, he bought the canterville chase he bought the canterville chase. He comes from a modern country where they have everything that money can by.

Washington:Was a fair-haired, rather good looking young man. He was famous, even in London, as an excellent dancer. He was Mr Otis’s son.

  

Mrs Umney: She was the housekeeper she was an old woman in a black dress. She believed in the ghost. She was a representative of old British Traditions.

Virginia: Was a lovely girl of fifteen with large blue eyes. She was a good sports woman and loved to ride horses.

The twins:  Two happy little boys who laughed and shouted a lot. They liked to play tricks on people and were often punished for them.

THEMES

Wilde takes an American family and places them in a British setting. He creates stereotypical characters the represent both England and the USA satirizing the unrefined tastes of the Americans and the determination of, the British to guard their traditions.

Wilde tends to reverse situations the ghost story is not told from perspective of the castle occupants, as in all traditional tales but from the perspective of the ghost. It is Sir Simon who faces advertized.

The Canterville ghost is a parody of a traditional ghost story and also satirizes American materialism. Besides the humorous tales, Wilde has a massager:

Virginia says that the ghost helped her see the significance of life and death.

SETTING

The story takes in an old country house, Canterville chase, which is a traditional haunted house. The author mixes the gothic atmosphere with comedy he mixes creaking floorboards, clanking chains and ancient prophecies with modern American consumerism Wilde is gothic setting helps emphasize the contrast between cultures-setting  modern Americans in a classical symbol of British history.

BIOGRAPHY OF OSCAR WILDE

Oscar Wilde was born October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland into an Irish Protestant family. It was the second of the three children physician Sir Williams Robert Wills Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Elgee. She was a successful writer and nationalist Irish cause, known with the nickname of Speranza. His father was a prominent surgeon Otolaryngologist, apart from a renowned philanthropist (ran a clinic in Dublin to indigent care). He studied at the Portora Royal School of Euniskillen, Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Centre where he stayed from 1874 to 1878 and in which he received the Newdigate prize of poetry, which enjoyed great prestige at the time. Oscar Wilde combined their university studies with travel (1877 visited Italy and Greece), while we published in several newspapers and magazines his first poems, which were gathered in 1881 in poems. The following year undertook a journey to United States, which offered a series of lectures on his theory of aesthetic philosophy, which defended the idea of "art for art's sake", and which sat the bases of which subsequently gave call Dandyism. Upon his return, Oscar Wilde did the same in universities and British cultural centers, where he was exceptionally well received. It was also in France, country visited in 1883 and which became friends with Verlaine and other writers of the time.  In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, who bore him two children, who rejected the last name after the events of 1895. Wilde's success was based on stinging and epigrammatic wit that derrochaba works, almost always devoted to denounce the hypocrisy of his contemporaries. The picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde, whose authorship reported fierce criticism from Puritan and conservative quarters due to your misrepresentation of the subject of Faust's only novel. Not declined, however, his popularity as a dramatist, raised with works such as Salome (1891), written in French, or the importance of being earnest (1895), loaded with irony and living dialogues works. Its success, however, was truncated in 1895 when Marquis Queenberry started a campaign of defamation in magazines and newspapers accusing him of homosexual. Wilde, for its part, tried to defend a defamatory against Queenberry, process but without success, because the evidence submitted by the latter gave evidence of facts that could be judged in the light of the Criminal Act Amendement.  Oscar Wilde may 27, 1895 was sentenced to two years imprisonment and forced labour. Numerous pressures and clemency petitions made from progressive sectors and several of the most important European literary circles were not heard and writer was forced to fulfil completely the penalty. Sent to Wandsworth and Reading, where he wrote the later acclaimed Ballad of Reading, prison sentence meant the loss of everything that had been achieved during the years of glory.  Hoard freedom, changed its name and surname (adopted from Sebastian Melmoth) and emigrated to Paris, where he remained until his death. His last life years were characterized by economic fragility, their losses of health problems resulting from their hobby to drink and a last-minute approach to Catholicism. Only posthumously his works returned to represent and edit it. In 1906, Richard Strauss made music his Salome drama, and with the passage of the years practically all of his literary production was translated into several languages.