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Mind Map by Anna Stevens, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Anna Stevens
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Dorian Gray Context
- Oscar Wilde's Biography
- Greek & Roman studies
- Lived with friend Frank
Miles, popular portraitist
among London's high
society
- Married a wealthy
woman, Constance
Lloyd
- Established himself as
a leading proponent
of the aesthetic
movement
- 1891 published 'Intentions', essay collection
arguing the tenets of aestheticism
- Dorian Gray Preface: "All art is
at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the
surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do
so at their peril. It is the
spectator, not life, that art
really mirrors. Diversity of
opinion about a work of art
shows that the work is new,
complex and vital."
- Dorian Gray Preface: "All art is
at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the
surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do
so at their peril. It is the
spectator, not life, that art
really mirrors. Diversity of
opinion about a work of art
shows that the work is new,
complex and vital."
- 1891 published 'Intentions', essay collection
arguing the tenets of aestheticism
- Affair with young Lord Alfred
Douglas
- 25th May 1895,
2 year sentence
for "gross
indecency"
- 25th May 1895,
2 year sentence
for "gross
indecency"
- Greek & Roman studies
- Marxist Perspective
- Analysis of class
relations & social
conflict
- Developed by high
productivity of work
class contradicting to
private ownership and
earnings of higher
classes
- Developed by high
productivity of work
class contradicting to
private ownership and
earnings of higher
classes
- Materialistic
understanding of
societal development
- German philosophers,
Karl Marx & Freidrich
Engels, mid-to-late 19th
century
- Analysis of class
relations & social
conflict
- Book Altercations
- Wilde added chapter 3 to
offer another interpretation
to Henry's interest in Dorian
- Fatherly, less homoerotic
- Fatherly, less homoerotic
- Wilde added chapter 3 to
offer another interpretation
to Henry's interest in Dorian
- Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- They appear every time
Faustus begins
contemplating the state
of his mortal soul. The
Good Angel's goal is to
convince Faustus to
abandon his sins and
return to God, while the
Bad Angel tries to get the
scholar to continue in his
pursuit of magic and so
remain loyal to the devil.
He is won over by the bad
angel
- Good angel
represents
Faustus's desire
to repent, and
the Bad Angel,
his desire to keep
right on sinning.
- Basil and Henry
- Good angel
represents
Faustus's desire
to repent, and
the Bad Angel,
his desire to keep
right on sinning.
- They appear every time
Faustus begins
contemplating the state
of his mortal soul. The
Good Angel's goal is to
convince Faustus to
abandon his sins and
return to God, while the
Bad Angel tries to get the
scholar to continue in his
pursuit of magic and so
remain loyal to the devil.
He is won over by the bad
angel
- Gothic Genre
- Sensibility -
extreme
emotion and
wild emotional
shifts
- The supernatural/ghostly
- Excess and
extremity of
violence and
cruelty
- The exotic and oriental
- Imagery of darkness, shadow, decay
- Fear, horror, terror
- Isolation & lonliness
- Blurring between
sanity & insanity
- Extreme/unusual weather
- Concealment & captivity
- 1880s Revival of
Gothic as powerful
literary form
- Sensibility -
extreme
emotion and
wild emotional
shifts
- Catholic Guilt
- Sin -->
confession -->
repentance -->
redemption -->
- We will always sin, inherent, Eve
eats fruit from the tree of
knowledge, now have knowledge of
possibility of sin
- Dorian never
repents, James is
the penance.
Henry the
serpent/fruit?
- Sin -->
confession -->
repentance -->
redemption -->
- The Criminal Law
Amendment Act 1885
- Used to send Wilde
to prison 1895,
homosexual acts.
- Lawyer presented evidence of
homoerotic passages from his
literature and love letter to
Douglas
- Lawyer presented evidence of
homoerotic passages from his
literature and love letter to
Douglas
- Nicknamed the
'Blackmailer's
Charter'
- Dorian
threatens
Allan with it
- Used to send Wilde
to prison 1895,
homosexual acts.
- Fin de siècle Victorian England
- End of an era, sense on rebellion against the Victorian period
- Rich, lazy, public display, opium
- End of an era, sense on rebellion against the Victorian period
- Critics
- Outraged by lack
of morality
- Wilde defended himself with the famous preface
- Wilde defended himself with the famous preface
- Outraged by lack
of morality
- Narcissus
- Greek mythology, Narcissus was
known for his beauty. He disdained
those who loved him. Nemesis
noticed this behavior and attracted
Narcissus to a pool, where he saw
his own reflection in the water and
fell in love with it, not realizing it
was merely an image. Unable to
leave the beauty of his reflection,
Narcissus lost his will to live. He
stared at his reflection until he
died.
- Greek mythology, Narcissus was
known for his beauty. He disdained
those who loved him. Nemesis
noticed this behavior and attracted
Narcissus to a pool, where he saw
his own reflection in the water and
fell in love with it, not realizing it
was merely an image. Unable to
leave the beauty of his reflection,
Narcissus lost his will to live. He
stared at his reflection until he
died.
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