2. dorian gray is a novel written by Oscar Wilde, a British playwright and novelist, and it is also his only novel. It was serialized in the American magazine Lippincourt from June 65438 to July 0890, and published in a single book the following year.
3. The work mainly tells that Dorian Gray is an aristocratic teenager who grew up in London. He is very handsome and kind-hearted Dorian looked at the portrait painted by the painter Howard and found his amazing beauty. Under the temptation of the painter's friend Lord Henry, he made a wish to the portrait: the beautiful teenager will remain young forever, and all the vicissitudes of life and the sins of the teenager will be borne by the portrait. Dorian didn't agree at first, but when he played with an actress's feelings and caused her to commit suicide, he found that Dorian in the portrait had undergone an evil change. The frightened Dowling did not restrain himself, but indulged his desires even more. Dorian's beauty remains the same, but the portrait is getting ugly day by day. Eighteen years later, Dowling murdered the painter Hallward out of hatred for his works and his ugly soul. Later, the actress's younger brother came to seek revenge, was cheated by Dorian's clever words, and finally died. The death of the actress's younger brother awakened Dowling's conscience. He raised his knife and stabbed the ugly portrait, leading to his bizarre death. His face became ugly and old, but the portrait was as young as ever.
Salome is a play written by British aesthete Oscar Wilde in 1893. This work mainly tells that Salome, inspired by her mother Herodias, asked for the head of John the Baptist as a reward after dancing for Herod. Although Wilde's Salome adopted the framework of Salome's story in the Bible, the author completely changed the original intention of the story, incorporated his own aesthetic narrative techniques, and expressed the aesthetic thoughts of love and beauty and love and crime.
5. Wilde's dedication to art, his rebellion and innovation to the practice of traditional poetry, and the poem Reading Prison Ballads is the best embodiment. Song of Reading Prison was written by Wilde after he was released from prison in 1897 and completed in 1898. This is his last masterpiece of poetry. The whole poem is divided into six parts, with a total of 660 lines and one section. Among them, he changed the traditional narrative lines and expressed the feelings of other prisoners, especially describing the evil university, moral decay and inhuman abuse in the prison system. This poem is written to commemorate the scene that a Royal Guard soldier will be hanged for murdering his wife. In this poem, he tried to choose words that could better express his thoughts. Seemingly emotional and improvisational, it actually contains a review and judgment of the whole society, which is inseparable from his imprisonment for two years. In the whole poem, he appropriately uses repetitive rhetorical devices and subtle syllable changes. In lines 443 and 444, "Fear strode ahead of us; Terror creeps behind us, which intensifies the atmosphere of terror and makes people feel creepy. "The vivid description of the situation in this poem makes readers feel the same way and truly achieves the aesthetic purpose.