living as a kind of art form and life as a work of art—something one creates oneself. Algernon is a proponent of aestheticism and a stand-in for Wilde himself‚ as are all Wilde’s dandified characters‚ including Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband‚ Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere’s Fan‚ Lord Illingworth in A Woman of No Importance‚ and Lord Henry Wootton in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Unlike these other characters‚ however‚ Algernon is completely amoral. Where Lord Illingworth and Lord Henry are downright
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Oscar Wilde wrote himself into history as a sharp and pungent writer and an exceptional personality with a suitable epigram at hand for every occasion. He is‚ though‚ perhaps most well-known for his infamous relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas‚ which resulted in Wilde being sentenced to two years of hard labor for homosexual offences. However‚ Wilde left to the world not only the fascinating story of his own life‚ but also a number of literary works in a variety of genres‚ both fictional and non-fictional
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| |Abstract： Oscar Fingal O ’Flahertie Wills Wilde is a world-renowned master of aestheticism‚ whose masterpiece The Importance | |of Being Earnest was regarded as a great success in the field of aestheticism. From my point of view‚ in this work‚ Wilde not | |only explains his philosophy of aestheticism: art is above life‚ but also shows his critically realistic concern for the | |Victorian British society.
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developing his poetry and ideas.There‚ he met the Aestheticism‚ or Aesthetic movement‚ whose doctrine‚ which can be summarized by the sentence’Art for Art’s Sake’‚ influenced his work immensely. He wrote nine plays – among them The Importance of Being Earnest(1895)‚ one of the most well-known and acclaimed by the critics‚ numerous poems‚ short storiesand essays– including fairy tales forhis twosons‚ but only one novel‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). His allegedly homoerotic overtones were a
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Checked: Shalbaeva A. Zh. Semey 2014 CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………3 1. Early life……………………………………………………………….4 2. Education……………………………………………………………...4 3. Prose writing …………………………………………………………..6 4. The Picture Of Dorian Gray…………………………………………..8 5. The end of the 19th century…………………………………………...9 6. Death…………………………………………………………………..11 Referenses………………………………………………………………..12 INTRODUCTION Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854
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epigrams‚ his only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ his plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. Wilde’s parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist‚ first at Dublin‚ then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism‚ led by two of his tutors‚ Walter Pater
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- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde can be a similar story feature of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ by Robert Stevenson. Dorian Gray is similar to DR. Jekyll for having a double life or a split personality because Dr. Jekyll and Edward Hyde is the same character. Dr. Jekyll had been born wealthy and had grown up handsome‚ honorable‚ and distinguished‚ and yet‚ he committed secret act of which he was thoroughly ashamed; while‚ Dorian Gray‚ is a handsome young man in which he
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The homosexual suggestions of The Picture incite criticisms‚ mostly of righteous anger and criticism. Throughout the Victorian Era movements for strong moral values dominated opposed to greed‚ exploitation and cynicism. Wilde’s the novel developed during this time. The 1890 date of publishing of The Picture implies that any kind of homoerotic relationships were very much forbidden. Therefore‚ the only novel of Oscar Wilde caused a public outcry in a pious Victorian England. The typical idealistic
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Introduction. When people speak about style they usually consider texts of verbal art [cf. 14] and it is believed that on the whole only masters of style deserve special investigation and of course masters of style are usually those who are writing artistic texts. But as is absolutely clear any text is characterized by a certain style [4]‚ and it doesn’t matter whether it is good or bad because even if the person is writing in a neutral way [17;18] all the same it is the stylistic
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Picture of Dorian Gray‚ the quest for perfectionism in the main characters leads to their downfall. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde narrates the mystery of an evil man and a man in seclusion. On the contrary‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray details the story of a cryptic painting and the damage it brings to the community. Both of these novels explore the quest for perfectionism: albeit through science in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ or social standing in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dr. Jekyll
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