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Oscar Wild
The pictures of Dorian Gray
Theme of the novel
the deep desire to obtain and maintain eternal youth.
Characters
Dorian Gary
symbol of the hypocrisy inherent in Victorian English society
Lord Harry
It represents the idea of living for pleasure without regard to morality
Basil
It is the moral voice of the story
Values criticized by the Victorian era
Superficial nature of the society
society is emerging, founded on appearance and not on substance
materialistic society
Criticism by the author
Wilde suggests that those who only focus on the beauty of the outside are superficial and do not see the true nature of a person
Who is he?
Was an English writer and poet
He was part of
Aestheticism
is an artistic movement born in England in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
The basic principle of esthetics is that of
"art for art"
exalted beauty as a supreme value not subject to the dictates of common morality;