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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,#,Oscar Wilde,奥斯卡,王尔德,(1854.10.16.1900.11.30.),Life,&,Works,Life,Introduction,Sexuality,Introduction,Oscar Wilde,(16 October 1854 30 November 1900)was an Irish writer and poet.After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s,he became one of Londons most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.Today he is remembered for his epigrams,plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment,followed by his early death.,Wildes parents were successful Dublin intellectuals.Their son became fluent in French and German early in life.At university Wilde read Greatshe proved himself to be an outstanding classicist,first at Dublin,then at Oxford.He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism,led by two of his tutors,Walter Pater and John Ruskin.He also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism,to which he would later convert on his deathbed.After university,Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.,As a spokesman for aestheticism,he tried his hand at various literary activities:he published a book of poems,lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new English Renaissance in Art,and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.Known for his biting wit,flamboyant dress,and glittering conversation,Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.,Sexuality,Wildes sexual orientation has variously been considered bisexual or gay.He had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles,Constance Lloyd(Wildes wife),Robbie Ross,and Lord Alfred Douglas(known as Bosie).Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with young working-class men,who were often male prostitutes.,Date:probably 1892,Place:Oxford Date:summer 1893,Place:Oxford Date:summer 1893,Photographs of Oscar Wilde,&Lord Alfred Douglas,Works,Main works,An Ideal Husband,The Picture of Dorian Gray,Style,Main works,Novels,The Picture of Dorian Gray(道林格雷的画像),Fairy tales,The happy prince（快乐王子）The nightingale and the rose（夜莺与蔷薇）The selfish Giant（自私的巨人）The fisherman and his soul（渔人和他的灵魂）The star-child（星孩）,Poems,Poems(诗集),Sphinx(斯芬克斯),The Ballad of Reading Gaol(瑞丁监狱之歌),Dramas,Vera(薇拉)Lady Windermeres Fan(少奶奶的扇子),The Duchess of Padua帕都瓦公爵夫人 Salom（莎乐美）A Woman of No Importance（无足轻重的女人）The Importance of Being Earnest(认真的重要性),An Ideal Husband(理想的丈夫),Essays,The Soul of Man Under Socialism(社会主义下人的灵魂),Letters,De Profundis(深渊书简),An Ideal Husband,An Ideal Husband,is often called a social comedy because it has both a serious(social)as well comedic plot line.On the one hand,the play is about a prominent politician who is in danger of losing his reputation as a paragon of integrity,owing to a youthful indiscretion that the plays villain is threatening to expose.,Although the politicians transgression is not exposed,this plot line conveys the idea that there are very few people in the world who are wholly good and to pretend so is hypocritical.This is a message for Wildes contemporaries,a late-Victorian group obsessed with purity and goodness,but of course,as imperfect as the people of any other age.On the other hand,the play is supposed to be funny,as it is,thanks to the witty bantering of the characters,especially in moments when the play is not directly concerned with the social plot.,The Picture of Dorian Gray,Introduction,Characters,Main plot,Comment,Introduction,The only one novel he wrote,The,Picture of Dorian Gray(1891),is worth mentioning because it touches upon a typical Victorian subject,the divided self.,Characters,Dorian Gray,a handsome and narcissistic young man who becomes enthralled with Lord Henrys idea of a new hedonism.He begins to indulge in every kind of pleasure,moral and immoral.,Basil Hallward,an artist who becomes infatuated with Dorian.Dorian helps Hallward realize his artistic potential,as Basils portrait of Dorian proves to be his finest work.A devout Christian with conservative values,he is later murdered by Gray.,Lord Henry Harry Wotton,an imperious and decadent dandy who is a friend to Basil initially,but later becomes more intrigued with Dorians beauty.Extremely witty,he is seen as a critique of Victorian culture at the end of the century,espousing a view of indulgent hedonism.He conveys to Gray his world view,and Dorian becomes corrupted as he attempts to emulate him,though Basil points out to Harry that You never say a moral thing,and you never do a wrong thing.,The pictures of the three main,Characters,Dorian Gray,Basil Hallward,Lord Henry,Main Plot,The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray,the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward.Basil is impressed by Dorians beauty and becomes infatuated with him,believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art.Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton,a friend of Basils,and becomes enthralled by Lord Henrys world view.,Espousing a new hedonism,Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses.Realizing that one day his beauty will fade,Dorian(whimsically)expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself.Dorians wish is fulfilled,plunging him into debauched acts.The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul,with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form,or through a sign of aging.,Comment,Influence is a recurring theme throughout the book.Influence is largely depicted by the author as immoral,as it eventually may turn people toward decisions that are not true to themselves,as best exemplified by Dorian Gray.However,all people are influenced and act as influences,and ironically,the book itself may influence its reader,though the preface paradoxically states that no artist,in their work,desires to prove anything or has ethical sympathies.,Style,Aestheticism,Wilde,s contribution,Aestheticism,Aestheticism,(or the,Aesthetic Movement,)was a 19th century European art movement that emphasized aesthetic values more than socio-political themes for literature,fine art,the decorative arts,and interior design.Generally,it represents the same tendencies that symbolism or decadence represented in France,or decadentismo represented in Italy,and may be considered the British version of the same style.It was part of the anti-19th century reaction and had post-Romantic origins,and as such anticipates modernism.It was a feature of the late 19th century from about 1868 to about 1900.,Oscar Wilde made great contribution to the world literature by inheriting and developing aesthetic views in his literary creation.Among his works,his aesthetic views spark like the diamonds scattering on the grass.,His aesthetic views involve not only the literary theory but also the literary creation.For example,in practice,Oscar Wilde never ceases to work for the beauty of his literary art.He advocates the massive use of symbols and the correspondence between words,colors and music.,Wilde,s contribution,In theory,Oscar Wilde reconsiders the relation between art and life.Inheriting Gautiers view“art for arts sake”,he advocates that life is the imitation of art,which can be seen in the preface of his book,The picture of Dorian Gray,as“All art is quite useless”.,His imprisonment indicates the end of the,Aesthetic Movement,.,Thank you!,By:彭艳梅,张玉娟,葛 翔,