Aestheticism

will never change until death.”（赵永斌，2009）Furthermore，the other animal in story, like the butterfly, daisy, and lizard they can not understand the nightingale’s behavior, they make fun of it. They represent some who criticize and suspect Wilde’s aestheticism, represent those who can not cherish love and they are always cynically. Wilde expresses the color beauty through description of many images. The goodhearted nightingale willing to get a red rose blooming in winter by sacrifice life in order…

from a strict morality system, the remnants of it will always press on life. It seems by using the character of the speaker as the main voice in the poem Wilde makes a social comment greater than the confusion of transitioning from Victorianism to Aestheticism. To be free of society, to escape its power, one has to remove themselves from it – as the lover walks away, as the harlots have already walked…

fiction novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, who is prefacing said novel with the notion that art, be it books, paintings, music, or anything similar, should only serve one purpose: to be admired. Throughout this novel, he presents the argument of aestheticism: that art should not hold an inherent moral meaning, instead, that the audience is the one who brings morality to the table, but also warns against taking this philosophy to the extreme, as that will bring negative consequences as well. Wilde…

novelist, essayist, and poet. Scintillating with wit, he has left many talented works, and he was famous for his poems, fairy tales, novel and plays. First written in French, Salome was a single-act tragedy, which became his representative work of aestheticism. Originally, the story of Salome was come from the Bible (the New Testament: Mark 6:17-29 and Matthew 14:3-11), in which the name Salome wasn’t even mentioned. Salome was the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Judaea, who killed…

Primarily, Wilde constructs the foil character of Lord Caversham as an “old gentlemen of seventy” (1.1A) who abides by Victorian English expectations to contrast Lord Goring’s repudiation towards aristocratic constraints as influenced by Aestheticism. When the audience is introduced to Lord Caversham in Act 1 Scene 1A, Wilde illustrates his aristocratic credence through his costume where he wears “the riband and star of the Garter” and is “A fine Whig type” “Rather like a portrait by Lawrence”…

what they saw. This painting was created under the influence of romanticism and Aestheticism which was some of the themes embraced in this century of art…

to make men feel inferior, which shows efforts to resists these norms. The women in Tales of Heike, Pillow Book, Bamboo cutter, and Tales of Ise all show attributes of superiority that display resistance to male’s dominance in relationships, aestheticism, and warfare. In the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Princess…

However, the movement of aestheticism also plays a crucial role in Dorian 's downward spiral. The Aestheticism Movement during the 1800s s emphasized that art should be judged purely by beauty and form, rather than by any underlying moral or political message. Therefore, though a prominent leader of the movement, Oscar…

usage of minimal words. In Benjamin 's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he discusses how technology has changed the rhetoric around art. While Benjamin critiques this reproducibility of cultural commodities, as well as the aestheticism of politics,…

private level. There were two reasons for these laws, first one was that it was against the religion and second, there was a constant increase in male becoming homosexuals. One of the homosexual icons of that time was Oscar Wilde, who was a pro-aestheticism supporter. His charges against the Queensberry of Marquess backfired and he was imprisoned in 1886, a year after the law was…