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OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) - Coggle Diagram
OSCAR WILDE
(1854-1900)
life
he moved to London ➜ public persona of a dandy
married Constance Lyod
born in Dublin to an upper-middle class Protestant family
accuses of homosexual relations ➜ he was imprisoned
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
(1890)
the story of a man who do a pact exchange his soul for eternal youth and beauty
fable and psychological horror story
themes
art vs reality
criticism of society
double lives
compassion
Faustian pact
criticizes the double lives and hypocrisy of Victorian society
style
dialogues witty and intriguing
omniscient third-person narrator
descriptive, with sensory details
elements of Gothic horror
aesthetic movement