Concetti Chiave
- Oscar Wilde was renowned for his irony, attitude, and presentation, embodying the "dandy" figure in Victorian society.
- He championed "art for art's sake," valuing art for its beauty and eternal nature, rather than for didactic purposes.
- Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," critiques Victorian hypocrisy through the story of a man whose portrait reveals his true corrupt nature.
- The novel's style is dramatic, with vivid settings and character development conveyed through dialogue and actions.
- In plays like "The Importance of Being Earnest," Wilde uses humor and satire to expose the moral pretensions of Victorian society.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar wilde became very famous for his irony, attitude and poses. In particular for his superior way to dress, to speak and to think about his individualism, he was considered a rebel and a “dandy” in the Victorian society where he lived. In agreement with the famous sentence “ arts for art’s Sake”, Wilde was more interested in the worship of pleasure , believing that the only purpose of the art was the art in itself and no more else.
So art could be seen as a cult of the beauty and a way to escape from the murder of a man’s soul.That is because art is considered eternal and able to survive on people and at the same time the beauty. For this reason Wilde writes only for personal pleasure, refusing any didactic role: this attitude and this superiority to the materialistic world, at the end, made him an outcast. The novel “The picture of Dorian Gray” is a clear example of the hypocrisy inside the Victorian society and a confirm of his principles about the eternity of the art : the young Dorian ,with his false good-looking appearance, represents the bourgeois hypocrisy, the hidden picture, which reflects his real corrupted nature, is the symbol of immorality. But ,at the end, it confirms its superiority because while the young dies cruelly as a punishment, it restores its original beauty and survives on him. The style use in this work is typical of a drama: the setting is vividly described, characters’ nature arises from their words and actions and the narration is made by a third –person narrator. He will write also plays like “The importance of being Ernest” where once again Wilde makes a social satire against Victorian people. Through witty dialogues, amusing puns, customs, hidden secrets he shows how the society in reality is not so moral as it pretends to be.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Cuál es la visión de Oscar Wilde sobre el propósito del arte?
- ¿Cómo se refleja la hipocresía de la sociedad victoriana en "El retrato de Dorian Gray"?
- ¿Qué estilo literario utiliza Wilde en sus obras y qué temas aborda?
Oscar Wilde creía que el único propósito del arte era el arte en sí mismo, sin ningún otro fin, y lo veía como un culto a la belleza y una forma de escapar de la destrucción del alma humana.
En "El retrato de Dorian Gray", la hipocresía de la sociedad victoriana se refleja a través del personaje de Dorian, cuya apariencia engañosamente atractiva representa la hipocresía burguesa, mientras que su retrato oculto simboliza su verdadera naturaleza corrupta.
Wilde utiliza un estilo típico de drama, con descripciones vívidas y personajes que se revelan a través de sus palabras y acciones. Aborda temas como la sátira social, la hipocresía y la inmoralidad de la sociedad victoriana, como se ve en obras como "La importancia de llamarse Ernesto".
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