The picture of Dorian Gray – The Preface

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It is the preface of Aesthetic movement. Manifesto is a literary criticism, in this case O. Wilde spook about art, to put in to question, to criticize the previous things. The picture of Dorian Gray is the expression of an Anti Victorian reaction. The aim of the Preface is to criticize previous cannons in literature and in art. O .Wilde expounded ideas about beauty. The function of Victorian Poetry was to teach morals and to be useful. In O. Wilde’s works the idea of morality is noway connected or to be connected to art, so the function of Preface is to expand his ideas about art in the form of a provocation against the existing standards. The writer is the creator of beautiful things.