Oscar Wilde was one of the most radical aesthetes who demonstrated "art for art's sake" in the late Victorian Age.His brilliant comedies,for the witty paradoxes and epigrams in the dialogues and the clev...Oscar Wilde was one of the most radical aesthetes who demonstrated "art for art's sake" in the late Victorian Age.His brilliant comedies,for the witty paradoxes and epigrams in the dialogues and the cleverly constructed plots,have been acknowledged his greatest contribution to English literature,and The Importance of Being Ernest is his masterpiece in drama.In this essay,I focus on the girls of this drama,Cecily and Gwendolen.They are like twins;both of them are intelligent,romantic and passionate.They are very fantastic and insist on marrying a name,but they are not really like the serious people,they are free minded and to some extent,rebellious or out of social custom.From analyzing the two girls,I try to comprehend new women in Victorian Age and Wilde's aesthetic ideas.展开更多
文摘Oscar Wilde was one of the most radical aesthetes who demonstrated "art for art's sake" in the late Victorian Age.His brilliant comedies,for the witty paradoxes and epigrams in the dialogues and the cleverly constructed plots,have been acknowledged his greatest contribution to English literature,and The Importance of Being Ernest is his masterpiece in drama.In this essay,I focus on the girls of this drama,Cecily and Gwendolen.They are like twins;both of them are intelligent,romantic and passionate.They are very fantastic and insist on marrying a name,but they are not really like the serious people,they are free minded and to some extent,rebellious or out of social custom.From analyzing the two girls,I try to comprehend new women in Victorian Age and Wilde's aesthetic ideas.
