Up to the writing of his last play, The Importance of Being Earnest in 1886, he went through different literary [?] which seem to reflect his [?] at the [?]. First he wrote mostly fairytales in which the good and the pure always [?]. However, Wilde's tales differ from the [?] in that they deal with the evil [?] human beings rather than as an [?] force. Written for "children from eight to [?]" they can be seen as an [?] to fight his own 'evil' and [?] in a world of childlike '[?]'. At this time, he also wrote critical essays like "The Decay of Lying" and "The Critic as Artist" in a playful, [?] style that actually [?] their [?].