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The Victorian age
The term Victoria derives from queen Victoria, she became the symbol of the nation. On the one hand it was the age of progress and social reforms on the other was characterized by injustice and poverty. They promoted a code of values these values were refined by the upper classes but extend to all. In the family assumed a key role the woman and represented the authority. the Victorian compromise was a code of values that found its basis in the evangelicalism. In this period the poor lived in segregated areas characterized by disease and crime. They live in terrible conditions so the government promoted the campaign to help this people. Were introduced many services as water, gas , public houses and police stations. The Victorian novel is realistic there is a linear plot, there is a third omniscient narrator and was characterized by an happy ending.
I would give my soul
the poem i would give my soul , describes the beginning of Dorian's corruption at the hands of Lord Henry. Lord Henry invites Dorian into Basil's garden and talks him about the youth, beauty, and the value of immorality. for him beauty is a form of genius, and beauty and youth are above all else. Henry imparted to Dorian this conviction that drives the protagonist at the damnation. In fact he would give his soul for eternal youth. the beauty for dorian is the most important thing, and vanity is his vice. his tentatives of altruism are driven by a desire to improve the appearance of his soul. vanity is his original sin. Dorian begins the novel as an innocent youth. Under Lord Henry's influence he becomes corrupt.
dorian’s death
Dorian decides to erase his past, and to focus on a positive future. He breaks the mirror given to him by Lord Henry, a symbolic rejection of his own vanity and the corrupting influence of Henry. vanity, not morality, drove his action, proving once again that Dorian is a condemned soul.
Dorian so decide to kill the picture but kills himself, the man in the portrait becomes young and beautiful, while the real Dorian becomes old and repugnant. Dorian, seeing the knife, thinks that "As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the painter's work" (177), but at the work and the painter are granted the immortality of art
The knife used by Dorian is the same one he had used to kill Basil
The story of a hanging
this poem is formed from 109 stanzas grouped in six sections. is the most famous poetical compositions of Wilde and it is the only work write after his release from the prison. the poem tells the story of a hanging
The Ballad of Reading Gaol tells the story of a hanging which took place in reading Gaol in July 1896 and which Wilde witnessed as a prisoner. The narrator is in first person, he had seen what he describes and write also his feelings. in the first stanza there is the reason why this man is imprisoned and The reason is that he had murdered his wife. while in the Second and third stanzas we have a description of the prisoner and in the Fifth stanza are describes narrator's feelings, because he feels compassion for him. in the Nineteenth stanza: there is a realistic description of the hanging (he was killed as an animal) in the Twenty-four stanza: there is the speaking voice who says that the life in prison is a torture and the DEATH PENALTY IS WRONG.
The killing of the albatross:
The rime of the ancient mariners is a poem written by Samuel Coleridge and published in 1798.
An old mariner tells his story to a guy in a wedding party.
The sailor told him the story of his ship . the ship is trapped in the ice and storm. An albatross rests on a ship, is welcomed as a favorable omen by the crew. The bird makes appear the sun dissolves the ice, so the ship can continue, unexpectedly th mariner kills the bird. This poem is characterized by a tragic ending, the old sailor was sentenced to an eternal penance.
Oscar wilde
Was born in Dublin in 1854. He became a discipline of Walter peter the theorist of aestheticism in England, accepting the theory of art for art’s sake. in 1884 he married Constance Lloyd , Theirs marriage was without sentiment because he was homosexual and will separate from his wife for this reason. In 1880 I write a series of short stories as the “happy prince and other tales” , the canterville ghost and the picture of dorian gray. So in a few time he became very famous, but in 1891 he was accused of homosexual pratices and for two years was sent in prison. He died in paris in 1900
A professor of aesthetic
Wilde adopted “the aesthetic ideal”, He lived in the double role of rebel and dandy. the bohemian allies himself to the masses, the dandy is an aristocrat, elegance is a symbol of the superiority of his spirit;
ART FOR ART’S SAKE
The concept of “Art for Art’s Sake” was to him a moral commitment. , he wrote only for himself. he saw art as a cult of beauty
The picture of dorian gray:
The novel Is set in London at the end of 19th century. The protagonist is dorian gray, basil a friend of dorian decides to portray him. Dorian was influenced by lord henry that convinced him to give his soul for eternal youth and beauty. The signs of age experience and vice appear on the portrait. Dorian lives only for pleasure and became insensitive. He decides to kill the painter and the painter work, but when he stabs the picture kills himself and the picture returns to its original purity.
Narrative technique:
This story is told by an unobtrusive third-person narrator. But There are a process of identification between the reader and the character the setting are vividly described and the technique which is typical of drama.
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