"For Wilde the ideal is not the man of unrestrainable passions, but the man whose passions have been tempered and refined into another self, which is consciously fabricated, posed. The measure of the greatness of the Wildean hero is the extent to which he has altered the raw material of his life into something quite different. So far as his passions emerge they are ignoble and uninteresting, part of an unpleasant, irrelevant reality, a subject for the naturalist and not for the true artist." Richard Ellmann