探究王尔德作品中的艺术和道德_英语本科毕业论文.doc

苏州大学成教本科毕业论文 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT II 苏州大学外国语学院 成教本科毕业论文 题 目： On the Art and Morality of Wilde’s Works 探究王尔德作品中的艺术和道德 专 业： 英 语 苏州大学成教本科毕业论文 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT I Acknowledgements There are a lot of people who help me to contribute to the completion of this thesis. and I would like to avail myself of this opportunity to extend my deep gratitude to them. Firstly, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Professor Su Xiaojun, who have given lots of intellectual guidance and moving encouragement in my three-year study at Soochow Secondly, I would like to thank my classmates for their unfailing support and patience in answering my questions in the interviews during my thesis writing. Finally, I am also much obliged to my family members, without their support and encouragement, my completion of this thesis would not have been possible. Abstract Oscar Wilde, one of the most important writers of Irish literature, as well as the English literature. He was an advocator of artistic aestheticism, insisting that it was life and nature that imitated art, not art imitated life and nature; art should not be restrained by morality. Wilde presented multiple images in his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and demonstrated himself behind various masks through conflicts among the multiple personalities. In the fairy tales, he created a realm of experience separate and distinct from the reality. Yet his fairy tales did not abandon reality. Wilde applied the paradox in his dramas. The paradox was used to fully express his thoughts and viewpoints. This paper did a detailed analysis of the art and morality in Wilde’s works. Firstly, this paper introduced the study on morality of previous literary works. Then, it elaborated the artistic theories of Oscar Wilde, and explored the concealed morality of his novel for instance of his representative works. Finally, it found that the morality and art were presented throug