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  • "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Widle and "The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock" by T.S.Elliot

     

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Evaluation:
Published: 06.07.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
Extract

Aestheticism figures prominently in both The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; each work, however, has a specific paradigm: Dorian Gray has aestheticism as the subjective merit of beauty independent of its reality, whereas Prufrock has aestheticism as a sordid quality, all too present within modern culture. The drawing rooms of Prufrock are listless, full of desultory imagery; while in Dorian Gray they are alive: the idle bandying of public art and popular philosophy becomes vivid, a vehicle for wit.
The historical context of the works, the background which is referenced throughout, is the same; while separated by several decades, both works address cultures remarkably similar, cultures in which high society is indulgent to the exclusion of realism. …

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