The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays PDF Oscar Wilde

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For the true dandy these things are only a symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his personality.” And, Baudelaire again, “Dandyism is the last burst of heroism in a time of decadence.” Pater’s emphasis on sensation is not found in Baudelaire, but we have in both writers an emphasis on the individual, a person set apart from the trivial people who perceive the world in conventional terms. For Wilde, and for some other authors, the world is ugly and disgusting, made bearable only by a rigorous art—that is to say, by artifice. Unconventional but carefully arranged dress, like the shapely utterances of wit, is the symbol of this passion for the discipline of art. Hence we find Wilde writing “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art,” and “The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. ”

The emphasis on artifice, though someti

• Book Name: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays pdf
• Author Name Oscar Wilde
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2011

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