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OSCAR WILDE - Coggle Diagram
OSCAR WILDE
life
born in Dublin
1854 / 1900
went to Oxford
disciple of Walter Pater
accepting the teory of "Art for Art's Sake
became famous for his style like a
Dandy
published a collection "Poems"
went to America
brougth the
Aestheticism
married Constance Lloyd
secret relationship with Lord Douglas
1880s started to be a famous author
novel
fairy tales
poems
short stories
tragedies
comedy of manners
essay
1891 he was prisoned for homosexuality
then exile in France, broken.
The Rebel and Dandy
"
My life is like a work of art
"
Dandy side:
aristocrat whose elegance is a symbol of the superiority of his spirit
interested in beauty
no moral stance
he rejectet the didacticism
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
plot and setting
London
end of 19th century
characters
Lord Henry Wotton
brillian talker, sharp in his criticism of institutions
Basil Hallward
the painter
Dorian Gray
ideal of youth, beauty and innocence
narrative technique
unobtrusive third-person narrator
allegorical meaning
every excess must be punished
no escape from reality
the picture
immorality, bad conscience of Victorian middle class
restored means for Wilde
art survives people, art is eternal
gothic side of the story
Dorian
symbol of bourgeois hypocrisy
The Preface
manifesto of english aesthetic movement