Do Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens share the same idea and philosophy of their era?

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Answer 1

Oscar Wilde believed in art was equivalent with beauty and Charles Dickens believed that art was the instrument by which, given enough readers, social change could take place. One man was a flamboyant bisexual who espoused beauty as truth as a lot of gay people do in the performing arts and the other one wanted to stop injustices in the world. The only thing that they do have in common is that they wrote exaggerated and comic characters.