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Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡.王尔德
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Aesthetic movement
Who is Wilde
His play
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Aesthetic movement
• The British decadent writers were deeply influenced by the Oxford don Walter Pater and his essays published in 1867–68, in which he stated that life had to be lived intensely, following an ideal of beauty. His Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) became a sacred text for art-centric young men of the Victorian era. Decadent writers used the slogan "Art for Art's Sake" (L'art pour l'art), coined by the philosopher Victor Cousin and promoted by Thé ophile Gautier in France, and asserted that there was no connection between art and morality.
• Dorian secures the picture and locks it away in a room upstairs. He wishes that the picture could bear all the burden of his sins and his aging instead of himself. He meets Lord Henry Wotton, who proves to be his mentor of depraved life.
• The picture of dorian gray has acpuired its own entity and has been seen as an authentic narrative on the notion of the double, the split of nature of the human soul and human existence that characterizes Victorian life in a sense.
• Another thing to note about the book is its preface in which Wilde states in his typical aphoristic manner that art is separate from morality and not to be well or badly written. Thus he manages to make the theory of art for art’s sake further clear. He assertion of the importance of form that the preface emphasizes has been gradually digested and accepted by later generations. Wilde’s novel is in fact a good footnote to the mentality of the aesthetes of the time.
• The main character of the novel, Dorian Gray, is a handsome young man of means. he visited his artist friend Basil Hallward’s studio and is fansinated with the portrait Basil is painting. It is his picture, as young and handsome as he is.
• Wilde was firstly a playwright of comedies. Though he did not live long enough to bring his dramatic powers into full plays, his achievement in the field of comedy is by no means negligible.
Who is he
• Wild was a swashbuckling （传奇 的）attention-grabber. He was famous as the leader of the lateVictorian decadent aestheticism. His poetry is commonplace as compared with his fellow writers like Dowson and Johnson. His plays are humorous, clever, but lacking in depth.
• The one novel he wrote, The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891), is worth mentioning because it touches upon a typical Victorian subject, the divided self.
• His plays Lady Tindermere’s Fan(1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband(1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest(1895) all enjoyed amazing popularity in his time. It is good to add that Wilde wrote a good number of short stories, one sizeable collection of which is the Happy Prince and Other Tales.
• Dorian continues to indulge in dissipation, and the picture becomes uglier with time. At last Doring loses patience with the increasingly withered, wrinkled face on the picture, and decides to destroy it.He stab it through with a knife, and hears a deathly scream from himself. When his servants come, they find the dead body of their master with a face exactly like that on the picture.
