EZambon - 5B. From The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the Anti-Victorian Reaction - Life as the Greatest of the Art
Life as the Greatest of the Art
Life as the Greatest of the Art is an extract taken by Mr. Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the first sequence is presented the habit to give a party and in particular is presented a Dorian's party rich of details and care for them. The reader can best imagines the scene thank to the narrative technique of telling. The reader considers Dorian as a type to imitate because he has only the guests' filter to create an opinion about him. There is a 3rd person omniscient narrator who drive reader opinions and ideas about character. The guests see in Dorian a true realization of someone they had dreamed; this is a contradiction because a dream for definition can't became true and the fact that Dorian is considered true should wake reader's attention about what is real and what no.
The second sequence has the function to explicit to the reader Dorian life's philosophy founded on Fashion and Dandyism.
In the third sequence the narrator deepens Dorian expectation of life, he is not content to be an arbitrer elegantiarum having charm only in the behaviour or in the body, he would create a new philosophy of sense in which charm becomes feature also of personality and inner side of everybody.
In the fourth sequence is presented Dorian's reflection about senses, emotions and passions in human being's history and concludes that they were suppressed and this is been a terrible loss.
In the end sequence are presented Lord Henry's prophesies that are the same concept of Dorian's philosophy.
The ending sequence have a language orderly and rational in according to the reasoned philosophy and ordered principles theorized by Dorian.
