The Writing Art of Wilde’s Fairy Tales: the Reshaping of Love and Kindness Under the Cloak of Aestheticism

Taking “The Happy Prince” as an Example

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.347How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Wilde’s fairy tales, The Happy Prince, aestheticism, morality

Abstract

Oscar Wilde, the controversial and tragic aesthetician who had been tragically ruined for nearly a century, wore his carefully woven “art for the sake of art” aesthetic coat, and cultivated a fantasy fairy tale garden — beneath the aesthetician’s wild appearance, what is hard to conceal is a pure love for the best, and a heart that is never extinguished. Taking “The Happy Prince” as an example, the author tried to analyze Wilde’s fairy tale writing art from three aspects: “the beauty of the appearance replaces the good of the bones”, “the beauty of the environment shapes the evil in the world”, and “the beauty of death reflects the love of life”: The love and goodness in morals seem to be regarded as worthless things, but in fact, through fairy tales, they have achieved a sad and beautiful return and reshaping.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Haoyi Wu
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BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
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