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OSCAR WILDE - Coggle Diagram
OSCAR WILDE
AESTHETICISM
art for art's sake
form is more important than content
Style
Epigrammatic
Short sentence
aphorism
Witty
sharp and subtle remarks
Jewelled
Refined style full of precious images and rhetorical devices ornate, mannered, redundant
cult of beauty in itself
no morality and material utility
Decadence
Characteristics
Anti-conformist hero against Victorian morality
Dandy
Devotion to beauty
Decadence
The picture of Dorian Gray
Criticise the Victorian values
pleasure and beauty
Il Piacere, D'Annunzio
LIFE
1854 Born in Dublin
1890 wrote The picture of Dorian Gray
1891-92 Wrote Salomé
1895 Wrote The importance of being Earnest
1898 wrote The ballad of Reading Gaol
1900 Died in Paris
The importance of being Earnest
comedy
The ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar experience in prison
Salome