Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dorian Gray Blog #3

From what we have read of "The Picture of Dorian Gray", one might assume that Oscar Wilde is a misogynist. Although one might assume this, it is not necessarily true. In order to be considered a misogynist, Wilde would need to show his audience on different occasions that he does, in fact, have a strong hatred for women. He does not sufficiently do so in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Although he does make a few comments that are arguable, that still does not mean that it is necessarily how he feels in real life. Even though many authors do write what they know and feel, many also write things in order to portray the specific characters in their stories. In Wilde's case, he very well may have been simply saying misogynist like things, simply in order to get across the true character of Lord Henry. By making Lord Henry a possibly misogynist and extremely disagreeable man, Oscar Wilde is successful in giving his audience a bad first impression of Lord Henry in order to set him up for all other bad things he will do during the novel. I believe that all of these things prove the argument that one cannot say that Oscar Wilde was a misogynist based statements and dialogue written in the text.

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