The correct answer is C. Artists should use their work as a call for social reform.
Robert Ross had read Wilde's poems before they met, and he was not restricted by the Victorian ban on homosexuality, even to the point of getting away from his family. By Richard Ellmann's account, he was a precocious seventeen-year-old who "so young and yet so knowing, was determined to seduce Wilde". According to Daniel Mendelsohn, Wilde, who had long alluded to Greek love, was "initiated into homosexual sex" by Ross, while his "marriage had begun to unravel after his wife's second pregnancy, which left him physically repelled".
