Oscar Wilde 英文的课件资料.pptxVIP

Oscar Wilde 英文的课件资料第1页/共98页第2页/共98页Oscar WildeLifeHe was born in Dublin in1854, studied classics at Trinity College（三圣学院），and then went to Oxford University, where he distinguished himself as a classical scholar and poet. His Father was Ireland’s leading eye and ear surgeon and his mother was a poet and author.第3页/共98页Oscar WildeHe was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London and one of the greatest celebrities （名人）of his days.He suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned（入狱） after been convicted of “gross indecency（严重猥亵罪）” for homosexual acts.He died in Paris in 1900.Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in the 1890sOnly Connect ... New Directions第4页/共98页Lord Alfred Douglas his same-sex partner 第5页/共98页Photographs of Oscar Wilde Lord Alfred DouglasTaboo LovePlace: Oxford Date: summer 1893Date: probably 1892 Place: Oxford Date: summer 1893 第6页/共98页Homosexuality I am true Love, I fill the hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame. Then sighing, said the other, Have thy will, I am the love that dare not speak its name. excerpted from Tow Loves Lord Alfred Douglas (1894)第7页/共98页Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (Jane Elgee, 1821-1896) 第8页/共98页On May 29 in 1884, got married Place：Constance 康士坦茨湖 They had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886). The photo shows Wilde’s wifeand his son Cyril in 1889. 第9页/共98页Oscar WildeWilde’s estheticism唯美主义Oscar Wilde adopted the esthetical ideal: he affirmed “my life is like a work of art”.His estheticism clashed with（与冲突） the didacticism启蒙主义 of Victorian novels.A contemporary edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray.Only Connect ... New Directions第10页/共98页Estheticism Devoted to a school of thought and a mode of sensibility known as estheticism, Wilde believed that art possesses an intrinsic（内在的） value—that it is beautiful and therefore has worth and doesnt need to serve any other purpose, be it moral or political.The purpose of art was to guide life, and to do this, it must concern itself only with the pursuit