Dorian & #183; Gray's portrait: a beautiful elegy that shocks the soul.

Whether watching movies or reading books, we often have such a stereotype: "Is this character a good person or a bad person?" But in the world of dorian gray, there is no uniform standard for good or bad. Beauty is ugly, evil is good, desire is virtue, unity of opposites and purity of contradiction.

Dorian Gray, the hero of the portrait, is a noble boy born in London, with amazing appearance and kind heart.

Dorian saw the portrait painted for him by the painter Hallward and realized his amazing beauty. Under the temptation of Lord Henry, he made a wish to the portrait: the beautiful teenager will remain young forever, and all the vicissitudes of life and the sins of the teenager will be borne by the portrait.

Dorian thought it was just a trivial joke at first, but when he abandoned an actress, he found that the portrait had undergone an ugly change. In Dorian's indulgence of his own desires, he hasn't changed at all, but the portrait is getting uglier and uglier, and finally it is unsightly.

18 years later, Dorian finally couldn't accept the ugliness of the portrait, but he thought it was the painter's fault and murdered the painter Hallward. And coaxed the younger brother of the actress who came to seek revenge, causing the young man to die. But the death of this life finally awakened Dorian. In a lucid moment, he stabbed the ugly portrait with a knife, and as a result, he died strangely. His face became as ugly as the portrait, but the portrait was as young as ever.

Oscar Wilde's Aestheticism

In this book, Dorian, the hero, is the perfect embodiment in the mind of Wilde, Green-"exchange your soul for youth", "I hope your beauty is invincible like a flower, and let the face on the canvas bear the burden of his desires and sins". Green's beauty will last forever, but the crimes he committed, the responsibilities he shouldered, the punishment he deserved and the condemnation of his soul remain in the painting.

"... you have a very beautiful face, Mr. Gray. Don't frown, you really are. And beauty is a genius-in fact, it is higher than genius because it needs no explanation. It exists in the great realistic phenomena in the world, just like sunshine, spring, or the reflection of the silver mussel shell we call the moon on the dark water, which is beyond doubt. "

This is a wonderful description in the original work. Seeing this passage reminds people of Connor's Pearl Girl, which depicts a young woman wearing a "wreath" made of leaves. A leaf cast a shadow on her forehead, and the audience mistook the shadow for a pearl.

Just like pearls and leaves, beauty, although it may be only an appearance and illusion, is actually a truth in essence.

In the words of the world art chronology:

"He likes to draw hazy twilight.

The morning is like a trembling forest,

Clear lake water,

The pearly silver-gray sky ... "

"The pen is loose and full of charm.

Truth and reality are a natural pair, and see the wonderful reasons. "

"It is difficult to describe his unique poems which are intertwined with dreams and reality."

This is exactly the aestheticism that Wilde wants to express in this book.

Portrait is a work full of aestheticism, and it is the leader of the ideological trend of "art for art's sake" at the end of 19. Because of its high artistry and drama, it has been translated into movies and cartoons many times in later generations. It has been published as follows:

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American 1945 Albert Levin directed the film.

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Germany 19 17 Richard Oswald directed the film.

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Oliver parker, an Englishman, directed the film in 2009.

Russian1915 vsevolodymeyerhold directed the film.

In 2006, Duncan Roy directed the film in America.

American 19 16 Fred W. Durrant directed the film.

Hungary 19 18 Alfred Desi directed the film.

We often say: "We still need Wilde after 100 years", so we have to read The Portrait, Wilde's only novel and the pinnacle of his aestheticism.

The beautiful teenager Dorian Gray

In Portrait, Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man, found her amazing beauty after seeing the self-portrait painted by the painter Basil Howard. He met Lord Henry Foton at Basil's home and was deeply impressed by Henry's philosophy of life. Dorian began to feel pain because his youth was fleeting, and his face could not be kept forever. He announced that if he could keep his youth and make the portrait old, he would give up his soul.

In Greek mythology, there was a beautiful man named Narcissus. Because once he saw his handsome face by the pool, he fell in love with his reflection, could not leave the pond, and finally died of haggard. Looking back at this paragraph when sorting out the book review seems to imply Dorian's ending.

At the same time, this work is also the first book to suggest that only shallow people will not judge a book by its appearance.

The book describes a very wonderful sentence:

"Sometimes people say that beauty is superficial. Maybe, but at least beauty is not as superficial as you think. To me, beauty is a miracle among miracles. Only shallow people don't judge a book by its cover. The real mystery of the world is tangible, not intangible ... I think it will be sad if you waste yourself, because your youth can only last for a short time-fleeting. Flowers on the mountain will bloom again after withering. Next June, the golden chain flowers will bloom as golden as this year. Clematis will bloom purple stars in a month, its leaves are as green as night, and it will hold purple stars year after year. But our youth is gone forever. By the age of twenty, our cheerful pulse will become slow, our limbs will be weak and our senses will be dull. We will degenerate into ugly puppets, remembering from time to time the passion we were too afraid of and the wonderful temptation we lacked the courage to accept. Youth! Youth! There is nothing in the world, only youth! "

The beauty of Dowling's appearance has reached the state of perfection, and it has also found the perfect answer for the earl's temptation and the painter's deep trap.

The road to depravity

After his portrait wish came true, he met the actress Sybil Wayne for the first time and got engaged soon. However, Dorian was disappointed by a performance in Sybil, and lost face in front of Basil and Henry, and became angry from embarrassment and treated her ruthlessly. That night, Sybil committed suicide because of Dorian's despair after leaving him, but under the guidance of Lord Henry, Dorian regarded the death of his lover as a romantic story without heart.

From then on, Dorian began to degenerate day by day, and the portrait became more ugly and ferocious with every evil deed, but Dorian's appearance remained youthful and beautiful all the time. Under the cover of that portrait, he has lived a double life for decades: his appearance is pure and innocent, but in fact he has done many despicable and degenerate activities. Many young people like his looks, worship him, approach him, make friends with him, and become lovers, all of which are finally ruined by him. Basil, who painted his portrait, kindly advised him, but Dorian killed him after showing him the ugliness of the portrait. Then, inhumanely, someone was asked to destroy his body.

Lord Henry Walden is a key figure in a major turning point in the plot. He did nothing all day, and even advised people not to restrain themselves, not to be bound by so-called moral concepts, and to indulge their desire to pursue sensory enjoyment. ?

Sir Henry was fascinated by Dorian's amazing beauty, but unlike the upright painter, he was a poisonous snake in the Garden of Eden that traveled through time and space, and he was an author with a complex personality. He used shocking but humorous remarks to package his evil desires, and by indulging in debauchery and selling his soul, he led Dorian step by step to the point of no return.

The development of this part of the plot is also closely related to the author's own life experience:

He pursued rich sensory experience and aesthetic feeling all his life, dressed in strange clothes, made extensive friends, had a wide range of hobbies and had profound artistic attainments. He is also eager to pursue the ultimate beauty like Dorian, even tried the same-sex love, and also suffered the pressure of public opinion, secular views and even moral condemnation.

He takes his position in wealth for granted and is awed by the sheer fanaticism of beauty and art, just like Dorian, the protagonist, has peerless beauty, solid family background and good reputation. He is a thorough aesthete, and he chooses to ignore moral constraints and indulge his senses without restraint. He smokes opium, leads good children astray, seduces all kinds of women, goes in and out of brothels, meets gangsters, endlessly seeks sensory stimulation, enjoys pleasure, and experiences all novel things regardless of moral quality.

He turned life into an art, got rid of the beauty of moral shackles, the worship and fanaticism of beauty and sensory enjoyment, and the uncontrollable and unpredictable nuclear fission.

Unknown forbidden love

In the original work, the painter saw the green psychological description for the first time;

The painter later confided to Green:

The author Wilde himself is also a controversial homosexual:

Some people think that Dorian created his lover Bosch as a prototype, while others research that The Portrait of Dorian Gray was published before Percy met Wilde.

The description of this forbidden love in the novel was also used as evidence to try Wilde's "obscene case" in a London court.

The novel involves such a person's moral concept of right and wrong, and the author has not made a clear statement, so it was criticized by the British publishing house after publication: "This book is the product of the leprosy monster of French decadent literature, and it is a poisonous book, full of the stench of moral and spiritual decay."

Critics characterized Wilde as a "demon", but Wilde insisted that Dorian and this feeling were innocent: "His sins were imposed on him by those who found him guilty."

However, this forbidden secret love has no good end. When the painter saw Dorian's ugly portrait, his heart sank and he didn't resist Dorian's murder. Finally, he was destroyed and disappeared.

Tragedy written in reality

There is some kind of tragedy behind every good thing. All beauty is tragic, because the process of pursuing beauty will cause corresponding abandonment and mental burden. The more you pursue the ultimate beauty, the more you give up. Pursuing different loves and lovers will be cruel to abandoned people; Pursuing novelty and novelty will produce public opinion pressure and secular prejudice; Pursuing self-improvement will lead to selfishness and arrogance.

Looking at the whole novel, one thing is obvious: if you experience art purely for the sake of art, art can't bring real happiness at all; If the moral framework is lost, art will become "useless". Dorian's interest in art is a kind of uneasiness, and it is his dissatisfaction after exchanging his soul for a portrait. Later, he filled his home with all kinds of beautiful things, devoted himself to studying the artistic factors in tapestries, jewelry, clothing, music and even religion, and spared no effort. For Dorian, not all these can cultivate his temperament. They are nothing more than a way for Dorian to find his feelings, and an escape way to escape the moral warning brought by that ugly portrait. When art can't bring Dorian the new happiness he craves, he pursues those less clever ways of eating, drinking and enjoying. Sex, drugs, theft and violence. He needs to experience new feelings more and more, because he is eager to feel something again.

Because Dorian lost his soul, he also lost his moral contract and emotional dimension, a living person. Although he is fascinated by art, the rich emotions needed to appreciate art have long since disappeared. Symbolically, Dorian eventually contracted opium disease. In the process of finding feelings, Dorian really looks like an addict: he desperately wants to get the euphoria he once felt, but he can only increase his pain constantly. This is also the tragic contradiction of the whole book.

Portrait, an art form, deceived him. Art gave him a key to an ideal world that was not bound by traditional morality, but mercilessly fooled him-taking away the soul he admired for the beautiful world.

Didn't Wilde, who was hidden in the portrait, warn us of the moral limitations of beauty a hundred years ago? At this moment, the grand narrative is combined with the individual's fate, whispering to the reader's subconscious, like crying, like a clean steel knife, stabbing the devastated portrait.