https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hide en-us 2018-03-21 15:41:10 UTC 2025-10-22 21:06:17 UTC hello@padlet.com cintia_dirocco https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592832 Dorian is a young aristocratic man of extraordinary beauty and innocence. A day he met a painter called Basil Hallward, that fascinated by him, decided to portray him. Thanks to Basil, Dorian knew also Lord Henry, a cynical man that influenced him to enjoy his life because youth and beauty would be passed with time. so Dorian desired the eternal youth and the signs of age, experiences and vices appeared on the portray. Dorian lived only for pleasure and became corrupted, insensitivity, and when Basil found the corrupted image of the picture, Dorian decided to murder him.]]> 2018-03-21 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592832 cintia_dirocco https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592834 Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854.
He attended Trinity College and got a degree at Oxford University.
In 1883 he married Costance Lloyd who bore him two children but he soon became tired of his marriege. In 1891 he met Lord Alfred Douglas, with whom he had a homosexual relatioship and Wilde was sent to prison for homosexual offences.
He was a disciple of Walter Pater and accepted the teory of Art for Art's Sake.
He believed that only Art as the cult of Beauty could prevent the death of the soul.
He lived the double role of rebel and dandy.
The Rebel cricized the Victorian society.
The dandy is an aristocrat whose elegance is a symbol of the superiority of his spirit; he uses his wit to shock, and is an individualist who demands absolute freedom. The bohemian is an artist who allies himself to the masses and the urban proletariat, leading an unconventional existence, pursuing sensation and excess cultivating art and beauty.
The decadent artist
The decadent artist keeps himself away from both the middle class and the mass of people. He hates the hypocrisy of the middle class and the vulgarity of the mass of people.
He cannot stand the modern society values (money and businnes) and loves the cult of beauty ad supreme values in art and life. He didn't pursue any moral aim with his novel or social responsability. He has an inconventional and scandalous behaviour. He likes beatiful clothes, good conversation, delicious food handsome boys.]]> 2018-03-21 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592834 cintia_dirocco https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592836 A literary and artistic movement which flourished in England in the 1880s, devoted to ‘art for art's sake’ and rejecting the notion that art should have a social or moral purpose. Its chief exponents included Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, and others associated with the journal the Yellow Book.]]> 2018-03-21 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592836 cintia_dirocco https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592837 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, 
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, 
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, 
it was the season of Light, it was the season of darkness, 
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair".
                Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

Dickens’s quotation epigrammatically exemplifies the intricate knot of contradictions and contrasts permeating the Victorian Age…
Can you guess which ones?]]> 2018-03-21 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592837 cintia_dirocco https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592838 a comparison......]]> 2018-03-21 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cintia_dirocco/w3ca7ek1t12g/wish/244592838