Oscar Wilde生平,作品,流派课件.pptVIP

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900);1. Life;1. Life;Date: probably 1892 ;Lord Alfred Douglas;Wilde and Douglas at Oxford (1893);Homosexuality;Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (Jane Elgee, 1821-1896);On 29 May 1884, Wilde married Constance Lloyd.They had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886). The photo shows Wilde’s wifeand his son Cyril in 1889.;Poetry: Poems, 1891 The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898 Fairy tales: The Happy Prince and other Tales, 1888 The House of Pomegranates, 1891 Novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892 A Woman of no Importance, 1893 The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895 Salomé, 1893 ;Oscar Wilde adopted the aesthetical ideal: he affirmed “my life is like a work of art”. His aestheticism clashed with the didacticism启蒙主义 of Victorian novels. The artist = the creator of beautiful things. ? ;Aestheticism;Aestheticism ;Aestheticism;Aestheticism;1890 ? first appeared in a magazine. 1891 ? revised and extended. It reflects Oscar Wilde’s personality. It was considered immoral by the Victorian public.;The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)Directed byAlbert Lewin(1945);A temptation is placed before Dorian: a potential ageless beauty. Lord Henry’s cynical见利忘义 attitude is in keeping with the devil’s role in Dr Faust. Lord Henry acts as the “Devil advocate”. The picture stands for the dark side of Dorian’s personality.;Every excess越轨行为 must be punished and reality cannot be escaped. When Dorian destroys the picture, he cannot avoid the punishment for all his sins ? death. The horrible, corrupting picture could be seen as a symbol of the immorality and bad conscience of the Victorian middle class. The picture, restored to its original beauty, illustrates Wilde’s theories of art: art survives people, art is eternal.;The Importance of Being Earnest (1895);The Importance of Being Earnest (1895);The Importance of Being Earnest at the St. James’s Theatre . ;Wilde’s most enduringly popular play.;Jack has invented an a