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I write as a hobby and so my works are pretty amateur, but I still try to keep my writing as legitimate and proper as I can. My novel is about how a teenage boy (who is notorious for being a bad de...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T08:41:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/35754 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Dani2
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2019-12-08T08:41:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
I write as a hobby and so my works are pretty amateur, but I still try to keep my writing as legitimate and proper as I can. My novel is about how a teenage boy (who is notorious for being a bad decision maker) makes a few bad decisions and has to start living and dealing with the consequences. Throughout, he's been reading Oscar Wilde's novel, _The Picture of Dorian Gray_. There are a few instances where my character quotes the book, or where the narrator quotes the book, and the themes of morality resemble each other—in a roundabout way. I would compare it to how _She's the Man_ is a modernized version of Shakespeares _Twelfth Night_. My question is: Is it fine for me to use these quotes and make these comparisons? I understand Wilde has been dead for some time now, and that his works fall under public domain, I just don't want to misuse anything.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-04-30T21:45:43Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 7