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OSCAR WILDE - Coggle Diagram
OSCAR WILDE
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Aesthetic movement/ Aestheticism = a cultural movement that spread as a reaction to the values embodied by the upper-middle classes in Europe, especially in France
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search for what's beautiful and useless, regardless of profit and ugliness
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Wilde perceived the artist as an alien in a materialistic world, he wrote only to please himself and was not concerned in communicating his theories to his fellow-beings.
His pursuit of beauty and fulfillment was the tragic act of a superior being inevitably turned into an outcast.
A world of beauty > devotion to beauty as the essence of a different world and alternative to traditional values
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Oscar Wilde is an anti-conformist hero who follows the cult of beauty and pursues his own pleasure, rebelling against Victorian morality and utilitarianism
Dorian Gray is the perfect dandy because he takes narcissistic pleasure in contemplating his own beauty
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