LITERARY WORKSHOP

OSCAR WILDE BELONGED TO THE FOLLOWING LITERARY PERIOD

• ROMANTICISM

• VICTORIAN AGE

• ILLUMINISM

ART FOR ART'S SAKE MEANS:

• art has no moral value, it does not convey moral messages or have social utility

• art expresses the ideas and has moral messages in order to educate people

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY IS INFLUENCED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE FOLLOWING ARTISTIC PERIOD:

• AESTHETICISM

• ROMANTICISM

• SYMBOLISM

• EXPRESSIONISM

AT THE END OF THE NOVEL:

• DORIAN DIES AND HIS PORTAIT REMAINS THE SAME

• THE PORTRAIT IS DESTROYED AND DORIAN IS RESCUED

• DORIAN DIES AND THE PORTAIT CHANGES

_______is considered as the theorist of the Aesthetic Movement in England