Essay on the Gay as a Literary Figure in The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Gay as a Literary Figure in The Picture of Dorian Gray This base shall explore the risible as a literary figure ground on Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray. The aim of the essay is threefold. Firstly, to show how the human is related to two of the most potent archetypical images those of Dionysos and Apollo. Secondly, to demonstrate that the Wildean gay is profoundly afraid of life, and that his interest in year and aesthetic property rests on a principle of evasion. Thirdly, to contend that the humor in this novel, and by extension also in Wildes plays, is a symptom of the authors fascination with an archetypal gay. The Picture of Dorian Gray revolves around Dorians dual nature. On the unitary hand, he is the young hero whose adventures the novel records on the other, he is a painted image of extraordinary personal beauty. When Lord Henry tells him that his colossal looks will not last, the young man prays that he be allowed to sojourn as he is in Basils portra it of him. Dorian wants to enjoy his callowness for ever. His mad wish is a key to the archetypal factors which... ... intoxication and Apollonian form of Dionysian involvement and Apollonian unapproachability. He is able to enjoy the Dionysian pleasures to which he wants to abandon himself, but at an Apollonian distance. Works Cited Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Isobel Murray. capital of the United Kingdom Oxford University Press, 1974. Wilde, Oscar. The Letters of Oscar Wilde. Ed. R. Hart-Davis. London Hart-Davis, 1962. Jung, C.G. The Collected Works. Ed. Sir Herbert Read etc. London Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953-1976. Vol. 9.ii par. 73. in any case CW 11.283.