摘要
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only novel, has created a great sensation after its publication. This article tries to justify the righteousness of Wilde's declamation—art for art's sake rather than for morality. Facing the dilemma of the coexistent Realism and Romanticism and restricted by the prevailed Puritan doctrine, Wilde chose to evade into the shelter of Utopia. In his Utopian world, there's no morality or immorality, there's only beauty. With his self-fashioning aestheticism, Oscar Wilde pursues beauty in his own Utopian world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only novel, has created a great sensation after its publication. This article tries to justify the righteousness of Wilde's declamation—art for art's sake rather than for morality. Facing the dilemma of the coexistent Realism and Romanticism and restricted by the prevailed Puritan doctrine, Wilde chose to evade into the shelter of Utopia. In his Utopian world, there's no morality or immorality, there's only beauty. With his self-fashioning aestheticism, Oscar Wilde pursues beauty in his own Utopian world.
出处
《海外英语》
2016年第1期177-178,181,共3页
Overseas English
