oscar wilde context
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- oscar wilde
- culturally influenced by
- Late-Victorian society was
haunted by the implications of Darwinism- outlined in On the Origin of Species
and the Descent of Man- faith vs doubt had been tipped into doubt.
- The final chapter of The Descent of Man contains a passage in which Darwin says humans are ‘descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped’ which, via several intermediary stages, had itself evolved ‘from some amphibian-like creature, and this again from some fish-like animal’-
- influential Italian criminologist Cesare
Lombroso argued that the ‘born criminal’ could be recognised.
- Dorian Gray plays on this idea- he is so beautiful so surely he must be innocent? Painting hides his horrors.
- aestethicism
- Dark desires and forbidden pleasure are at the centre of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Late-Victorian society was
haunted by the implications of Darwinism- outlined in On the Origin of Species
and the Descent of Man- faith vs doubt had been tipped into doubt.
- fin de siecle/ victorian gothic
- time of change
- darwin's theory of evolution inspired works on the human body
- frankenstein
- dracula
- Victorian period is also of course a period of deep and sustained religious revival.
- darwin's theory of evolution inspired works on the human body
- focus n human body as place of terror.
- fin-de-siècle literature explored the darkest recesses of Victorian society and the often disturbing private desires that lurked behind acceptable public faces.
- Strongly influenced by the French writers, Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier- agreed that poetry had nothing to do with didacticism (the teaching of moral lessons)
- time of change
- victorian societal standards
- facades of purity and composure
- hiding dark recesses of victorian society
- facades of purity and composure
- homosexuality
- illegal
- accused of being a 'somdomite'
- culturally influenced by
- id ego super ego
- pyschoanalysis
- oscar wilde
- culturally influenced by
- Late-Victorian society was
haunted by the implications of Darwinism- outlined in On the Origin of Species
and the Descent of Man- faith vs doubt had been tipped into doubt.
- The final chapter of The Descent of Man contains a passage in which Darwin says humans are ‘descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped’ which, via several intermediary stages, had itself evolved ‘from some amphibian-like creature, and this again from some fish-like animal’-
- influential Italian criminologist Cesare
Lombroso argued that the ‘born criminal’ could be recognised.
- Dorian Gray plays on this idea- he is so beautiful so surely he must be innocent? Painting hides his horrors.
- aestethicism
- Dark desires and forbidden pleasure are at the centre of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Late-Victorian society was
haunted by the implications of Darwinism- outlined in On the Origin of Species
and the Descent of Man- faith vs doubt had been tipped into doubt.
- fin de siecle/ victorian gothic
- time of change
- darwin's theory of evolution inspired works on the human body
- frankenstein
- dracula
- Victorian period is also of course a period of deep and sustained religious revival.
- darwin's theory of evolution inspired works on the human body
- focus n human body as place of terror.
- fin-de-siècle literature explored the darkest recesses of Victorian society and the often disturbing private desires that lurked behind acceptable public faces.
- Strongly influenced by the French writers, Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier- agreed that poetry had nothing to do with didacticism (the teaching of moral lessons)
- time of change
- victorian societal standards
- facades of purity and composure
- hiding dark recesses of victorian society
- facades of purity and composure
- homosexuality
- illegal
- accused of being a 'somdomite'
- culturally influenced by
- oscar wilde
- basil is super ego
- pyschoanalysis
- henry as id
- id ego super ego
- pyschoanalysis
- basil is super ego
- pyschoanalysis
- id ego super ego
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