Students will understand (Aestheticism, Hedonism, Decadents, Dandyism, Homosexuality, and Victorianism).
Do Now: What do think is the meaning of self-love? Use the following table to brain storm list 3 synonyms, 3 antonyms, and 3 examples.
Self Love - Regard for one's own happiness.
Synonyms - Confidence, Selfish, Conceited
Antonyms - Generosity, Worrying for others, Giving
Examples -
Mini Lesson on key terms:
Aestheticism: Late 19th century literary movement that rested on the credo "Art for Art's Sake" and stressed the appreciation of beauty; Oscar Wilde, who insisted on separation of art and morality, was a dominant figure in this movement.
Hedonism: the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good, or the proper fend of action; belief in or practice of living only for pleasure; Dorian Gray lives only for his own pleasure, not caring if he hurts others.
Decadents: 19th century European writers who aspired to free literature from all influences; stressed the bizarre and the incongruous and artificial in their work as well as their personal lives; advocated art for art's sake, independent of moral and social concerns; Dorian Gray portrays the restlessness and the spiritual and moral confusion of a decadent.
Dandyism: a literary and artistic style of the latter part of the 19th century marked by artificiality and excessive refinement; Lord Henry Wotton introduces Dorian to dandyism.
Homosexuality: Oscar Wilde was 19th century literature's most conspicuous homosexual.
Victorianism: the ideas, beliefs, morals, way of living, and other standards common during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901); noted for prudery, moral strictness, and sexual repression; The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered scandalous when it was first published at the height of the Victorian Age.
Cooperative Learning: Key Facts on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Post to your Blogs and include Works Cited
Date of first publication: April, 1891
Genre: Gothic; philosophical; comedy of manners
Point of View: The point of view is third person omniscient. This is because at times the narrator sees the external world as well as what the characters are thinking.
Setting: London, England
Themes: The purpose of art, the supremacy of youth and beauty, the surface nature of society and the negative consequences of influence.
Tone: Gothic, sardonic and comedic.
Oscar Wilde born and died: Born in October 16th, 1854 to Jane Francesca Elgee and William Wilde. Died in November 30th, 1900.
Married: Married on May 29th, 1884 to Constance Lloyd.
Children: They had two children, Cyril in 1885 and Vyvyan in 1886.
Education: He first attended the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen. He later received a scholarship from Portora Royal School to attend Trinity College in Dublin. He won the college's Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a Demyship scholarship to Magdalen College in Oxford.
Crimes and Arrest: In April of 1895, he was arrested and convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to 2 years hard labor.
Literary Works:
Poetry
- Ravenna (1878)
- Poems (1881)
- The Sphinx (1894)
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Plays
- Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
- The Duchess of Padua (1883)
- Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
- A Woman of No Importance (1893)
- Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
- An Ideal Husband (1895) (text)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) (text)
- La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works
Prose
- The Canterville Ghost (1887)
- The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales) [5]
- The Decay Of Lying (First published in 1889, republished in Intentions 1891)
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
- Intentions (1891, critical dialogues and essays, comprising The Critic as Artist, The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison and The Truth of Masks)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel)
- A House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy tales)
- The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904)
- Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (First published in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon, December, 1894)
- De Profundis (1905)
- The Rise of Historical Criticism (published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908)
- The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) Re-released in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.
- Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (Paris, 1893) has been attributed to Wilde, but was more likely a combined effort by a several of Wilde's friends, which he may have edited.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/facts.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde#Works
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/bio3.htm
Homework:
Email yourself a picture of yourself or bring in a digital copy of a facial photograph/bust picture of yourself .
Look at your picture and create a list and project what you will look like in 50 years.
Read preface of the novel.
What are the seven deadly sins?
What I will look like in 50 years:
- Full of wrinkle.
- Drier skin.
- Hair lost?
- Walking around with a stick?
- Heavier.
What are the 7 Deadly sins?
- Wrath
- Lust
- Gluttony
- Avarice
- Sloth
- Pride
- Envy
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