Vi mando un link ad un sito che vi permetterà di inquadrare meglio "Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray" (summary - themes)
Come vi ho chiesto in un mio precedente commento (al post su moralità vittoriana) vi invito ad esporre vostre reazioni o riflessioni su quanto letto .
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/summary.html
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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/themes.html
A domani , numerosi
(dov'è Teresa ??? ed Elisa???)
I am trying to give some considerations about the plot and the themes of "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" . As we can see, there is a very new use of the literary device of the doubled figure of Dorian : one, external, very irresistibly beautiful, and another one, internal, that represents the soul itself of the character, in an irrimediable decadent phase. It is very surprising that Wilde decides to use the device of the hidden portrait to denounce the very common tendency of the age to have a life of only apparent things. We can see in the gradual degradation of the portrait of Dorian, whenever he commits a crime, the representation of the innumerable crimes done in the Victorian society always hidden under a beautiful veil (only for the purpose of building up a positive image of England ) : starting from the social and political injustices, the colonial usurpation till the moral degradation of a strong-moral-value based society. In this novel I notice a marked (moral) message, a message that strikes at the heart of human sensibility, or a strong criticism towards the beautiful facade of the Victorian society.
RispondiEliminaSo the story of the double character of Dorian may be considered a symbol of the Victorian way of living.