英文論文discussionofoscarwilde’sthoughtsoftheaestheticismfromthepictureofdoriangray(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 most wonderful achievement [2]. Those dazzling absurd argument, ironic humor and exaggerated contrast, have been a pleasant surprise. The way of life of the beauty is also the pursuit of Oscar Wilde. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian and Lord Henry believe in the new hedonism, in fact, it is a typical way of life of the aestheticism. Out of the exclusion of the vulgar reality, even out of the understanding of life going, we should make life into an art, put ourselves into a work of art and pay attention to the beauty at any aspects in life.And obviously, at the end of the text, it reveals one theme of the aestheticism of the relationship between art and life: life is ugly, art overes life, art and beauty are the eternal supremacy. Dorian39。s portrait is on behalf of the art itself, and Dorian is the speaker of the life. Dorian who lives in the life is beautiful, and Dorian39。s portrait which is in his consciousness grows old and ugly day by day. So we can see that the portrait is the portrayal of Dorian39。s fallen, his looks is contrary to his heart. We not only see his face and body which are scared to Heaven39。s, but also see his dirty, ugly and numb soul. The portrait is the externalization of his evil heart, and the damaging and distortion of art by him shows that the more the art reflects the real life, the more it is away from the beauty, just as the portrait with the increase of Dorian39。s misdeeds bees increasingly more ugly. So in fact, Dorian is more afraid of his growing old, he is fear of losing youth. He treats his portrait as a benchmark of life, but after repeated constantly struggling, and finally he uses a dagger to stab himself in contradictions, and died lying on the ground. However, the portrait stands in place, it still maintains its original. The youthful in the portrait is in the solidification of the eternal. Visiblely, the life acknowledges being defeated by the art. Art and life have no relationship with each other or art can catch the beauty unless it is over the life, it can reflect its nonutilitarian nature, no purpose, and this is even a manifestation which the life imitates the art, that is, the life imitates the art, even more than the art imitates the life.Part 3 Analyse Aestheticism from Four Main CharactersSo, how does Oscar Wilde39。s aestheticism in art and ethics, the relationship between art and the times in the portrait embody? I believe that we can analyze it from the three heroes39。 personality psychology in the text. This is the best embodiment of Oscar Wilde39。s three different sides. Analyse Aestheticism from Basil HallwardFirst, let39。s look at Basil Hallward, he is the painter who paints a portrait for Dorian. After reading the whole text, we can clearly see that he is a typical aestheticism, his pursuit of the art has reached the crazy point that the whole people bee stiff atheists. When Basil Hallward sees the moment of Dorian, he is shocked by Dorian’s beauty, he feels that the whole person, the soul, together with the art itself are swallowed by him, Dorian39。s beauty not only makes Basil Hallward look at things and past in different view, but also gives him revelation of a new technique, a new style. He exhausts all his mental and physical force into the creation and appreciation among the portrait. In some extent, Dorian39。s beauty bees only a way of life and supports his conviction, so we see that he is addicted to painting for Dorian at the first time. In a quiet atmosphere, he gets narcissism, selfparalysis, he finds Dorian39。s beauty, at the same time, he creates the beauty. More important, he pursues the beauty, so when we see Henry39。s appearence, Dorian39。s abnormal activity and preference for that people who makes him feel puzzled, Basil Hallward feels upset, loss, or even despairing. Entirely, his personality is Oscar Wilde39。s reflection of his own pursuit for aestheticism.Basil Hallward also does not want to display the portrait, because the aestheticism advocates nonutilitarian nature, he is not willing to use art in exchange for money and fame, just as a gift for Dorian, so Basil Hallward is focus on only form or the moment of beauty, and has nothing to do with the morality.[3]Originally the painter treats the portrait as his ideal beauty, but the harsh reality has continued to be tampering with his ideals, the artistic beauty which the artist creats by his own ideals falls in connection with the gradual decline of Dorian39。s degeneration. But he remains confident for the beauty, and forgives Dorian again and again, and he wants to save Dorian by using religional power. However, he does not know this is counterproduction for Dorian, Henry39。s hedonism has taken root in his mind, as the ideal beauty is the gratuitous nonsense even without pleasure, at the same time it will arouse Dorian39。s desire to destroy. In pursuit, there are two fundamental moral differences and contradictions, so what he kills Basil Hallward is inevitable. If the final death is Basil Hallward39。s tragedy, then it is also the aestheticism39。s tragedy, in which we can see Oscar Wilde39。s contradiction and disillusionment. Oscar Wilde lets Basil Hallward go to die, on the one hand, it shows that he might have realized that the pursuit of pure beauty and separating the relationship between art and life are inevitable demise of the oute. And Basil Hallward, who is his overemphasis on art above all else, even poses that each portrait painting drawn by the inner emotion is the artist not a model, the model is occasionally involved in. It is an incentive, the artist reveals not the model on the color of the canvas, but the artist himself, I do not want to take this picture to be displayed, because it exposes the secrets of my soul 。 Due to the excessive pursuit of the pure of the art and we can not resist the temptation of the beauty, so even he has known Dorian39。s fall, the rumors have been imagined no authenticity and eventua