| Ascar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish-born English playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, brings us a series of successful and sometimes innovative productions of diffrent genres. He is regarded as one of the most representative proponents for the Movement of Aestheticism. As a controversial figure, Wilde keeps his life and personality in the public eyes.Firstly, in the first chapter of this article, I analyzed Wilde's characteristic of family heredity disposition, as well as the influence to him, pointing out that what is the basis of personality conflics is precisely the result of the family and nationality's influence. I spent certain words to trace Wilde's life path, from his marriage to love ,then his trail to imprisonment, for that is the foundation of his literary art view and the creation. From his life, what is unfolded is Wilde's attitude to marriage and love, thus what is promulgated is the truth of his homosexuality.Secondly, after having found the real life of Wilde, I did further analysis on the relationship between his life and the literary thoughts, informing that his life is the most important basis on forming his literary view. Objectively, there is a kind of inner relation between homasexuality aesthetic standard and aesttheticism that is the substantial reason why Wilde jioned in a aestheticsm movement, that is, the infinite worship to youth and beauty. Subjectively, Wiled's viewpoints, such as life imitates art, have a kind of mask's function mat is to express his real life beneath the mask of art. This kind of Wilde's-like paradox is exactly a way of releasing his anxious of status. Rootedly, Wilde has a very complicated connection with antient Greece culture which has developed maturual homosxuality culture. He inherits its aesthetic and life style of Greece, using beauty as the weapon against the hypocricy of the society which he lives in and ending his life as a martyr of homosexuality.In the second chapter, I focused my eyes on the masterpieses of his works: plays and the novel The Picture of Dorain Gray, analyzing how Wilde tells us what he is by these works.At first, beginning with the shaping of these character images in the play of the Importance of Being Earnst, an Ideal Husband, the Woman of No Importance, Mrs Windermere's Fan and the Duchess of Padua, I argued the aesthetic features of the image of dandy and the connection between the image and the real life of Wilde and analyzed what they mean in being against the society. On the shaping of feminine image, however, I thought that Wilde has not broken through the traditional prejudice on women since there are always some kind of flaws in them, even they seem like smart and talkful, neverthless they are in the shadow of Wilde himself. That is not only because the view of society of female, but also Wilde's gay aesthetic to woman. The theme of forgiveness of the play is a revealing of anxious deep in his mind, an effort on gaining the acceptence and agreement of the society.Then, it is analysis on the thagedy Salome which Wilde likes most. Here Wilde reorgnized the Bible story into a brand-new one. Not only the figure of Salome, but also prophet Jonathan and Herod have diffrent meaning with a complecated relations among them by indicating some unknown desire and passion in diffrent aspects. The imagery of the moon and death transmitted the meaning of homosexual culture and the use of symbol and metaphor is also a way of letting out of a secret emotion.The last part concerns the analysis of Wilde's only long novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.The novel testifies Wilde's asethecism towards literature, meanwhile it is regarded as the work which reflects the author's secret life. Dorian Gray, Lord Henry and the artist Hallward, these three male figures not only carry out asetheticism in their behaviors but also propagand it, revealing Wilde's own life indirectly from different perspectives.
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