Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Oscar wilde - Coggle Diagram
Oscar wilde
life (1854 Dublin - 1900 Paris)
he studied in trinity college, then in oxford ( he accepted the theory o "art for art's sake")
London , he became a celebrity, he dressed as a "dandy"
1891 "the picture of Dorian Gray"
1881 poems , he moved to New York where he reportes his theory of Aesthecism= search for the beautiful
he married Lloyd in 1883
scandal with Lord Douglas about homosexual affairs, Oscar was sentenced to two years of labour forces, in prison he composed many play but some were banned because they were considered immoral
he died after leaving preason really poor
the picture of dorian gray
narrative technique: 3 person narrator and internal perspective
plot: Basil makes a portrait of Dorian
Dorian wishes he could remain young and beautiful for the rest of his life but his defects appear on the portrait
Dorian decides to stab the portrait but in reality he kills himself
themes
horrible corrupting picture= symbol of Victorian middle age
Real Dorian and Portrait of Dorian, which tries to be forgot by locking it in a room
art survives to men, art is eternal
cheracters: 3 alter egos of Oscar Wilde
Basil: is Oscar Wilde real alter ego an artist
Lord Henry: what people thought he was, he speaks well , he corrupts people
Dorian: this character is what Oscar wanted to be
dorian's death
bad things appears on the picture, it rapresentshis physical part for this reason when he stabs the portrait he kills himself, this is also a gothic elelment
Dorian is in a little village where nobody knows him and he is tired to feel his own name, his portrait ruined his life , he killed Basil
v 83 he wants to be better= hypocrisis
aesthetic double= beauty is split
one is going around doing bad things
the other one is in canvas
the importance of being Ernest
plot
two aristocratic men: Worthing and Moncrieff
Ernest was adopted and he was called Jack by Miss Cardew
story develops when two men attemps to marry Gwendolen and Cecily, both his friends used the surname Earnest
during the story they tried to seduce some girl
comedy of manners
restoration of comedy of manners
mirror where audience could see the images of their own world of dinner-parties and country-house weekends, best secrets are those that evryone knew
everyone knew very well this world that wasn't stable, exclusive or moral
the institution of marriage(social stature): aristocratic society, victorian society especially Bracknell
marriage is the most important problem: practise surrounded by hypocrisy and absurdity
play ends happily: marriage and social values tied in destructive way
irony and imagination(paradoxes and complex social identification)
double meaning Earnest-Ernest
characters take a part in conversation, is important how they say something, it was used solemn language for irony
important the use of immagination, characters changes their identities as they wish
characteristics of his poetry
the rebel and the dandy
rebel like Bohemians against modernism and materialism of middle class
dandy: against of the middle class, but he uses elegance and aristocracy as a symbol of superiority