THE PREFACE

Analysis

During the 19^th century developed “The Manifesto Of Aestheticism”. It criticized the traditional standards of Victorianism; it rejected progress which would bring well-being. The aesthetic movement is one of the anti-Victorian reaction of certain novelist; Life is the true beauty of the movement.

The Manifesto is written in order to explain the reasons why traditional standards of art are  no longer considered valid. The principle which is put into discussion is utility.

The Epigrammatic structure is made of short statements suitable to stick in the reader’s memory; it display a contradictory nature and the Manifesto comes to a climax in the last statement. The last statement being “All art is quite useless”.

The concept of beauty is central in the idea of art ( it is the key word in the romantic poetry of the second generation); the artist are considered creators and their task is to reveal art. Art is conceived through many different impressions, the reader is put in the centre of attention.

During the Victorian Age there was a rigid behavior in which it was easy to find judgments about different things, because it was the standard of that period, people judge experiences , this shows how the nature of the period was contradictory.

Double nature: the bifocal Manichean principle : the monster and the human being : Doctor Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and the beautiful and the ugly in The Picture of Dorian Grey.

Manifesto is a form of literary where the poet, the artist, the writer brings his idea to the surface in order to express his point of view on his art.