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Dandysm - Coggle Diagram

- - - - rebel
      - dandy
        
        elegance
        
        superiority of spirit
        
        individualist
        
        absolute freedom
        
        life meant for pleasure
        
        interest in beauty
        
        no moral stance
      - “The picture of Dorian Gray”
        
        “There is no such thing as a moral
        or an immoral book.
        Books are well written, or badly written.
        That is all”
        -Dorian Gray, The Preface
        
        didacticism
        
        importance of beauty
        and art
        
        contrast between
        moral and artist
        
        no moral implications
        
        everything can
        be beautiful
        
        “ode to the grecian urn”
        -Keats
        
        immortality of art
        
        “Shall I compare thee”
        -Shakespeare
        
        long descriptions
        
        ”Il Piacere”
        -D’Annunzio
- - - - main characters of their novel
        are similar
        
        devoted their life to
        
        pleasures
        
        search for beauty
        
        precious
        
        intellectual as well
        as material
        
        contempt vulgarity of
        the bourgeois world.
        
        noble origins
        
        beautiful and young
        
        instincts are more
        important than rationality
    - - uniformity
      - hypocrisy
        
        industrial society
        
        mass production
        
        lived a life of refined sensations
        
        cult of beauty
        
        life as a work of art
        
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- - - - purchase beautiful things
        
        love for details
      - physical appearance
        
        leisurely hobbies
        
        appearance of nonchalance
        
        cult of self
      - refined language