He compared the great causal fate of Greek tragedy, the lonely pain of humanists in Shakespeare's plays and the tragic heroic spirit in Hemingway's works, and described the beauty and sadness in life-love in ordinary life, beauty in spiritual world, and the great pain their destruction brought to people's hearts, highlighting the redemption and destination of Christ's divinity. Wilde no longer repeats the cliche that the prince and princess lived happily for a hundred years, nor does he express the good wish that one good turn deserves another, and one evil turn deserves another. He only tells the tragedy in a cold and detached tone, and with the help of the interlaced perspectives and eyes of the characters, the reader can hear the fisherman's long sigh, the nightingale's dying song, the dwarf's sad cry and his heartbreaking voice. As an implied author, he has always kept silent about the characters in the story, making the death inspired by Christ the best ending ceremony for the characters to bid farewell to their tragic fate. He repeatedly questioned the contradictions and paradoxes in life with imperfect fairy tales, alluded to the difficulties and complexity of the real society, and showed his perfect and pure pursuit of art, love and life in a tortuous way. He also predicted his unique life route with his own works: walking on the edge of hedonism and sensualism, vacillating between material and spirit, longing and despair for love, converting to Catholicism in loneliness, and devoting himself to the embrace of Christ until death, just like the tragic characters in his works. Aestheticism is not only the inheritance and development of romantic poetry, but also the innovation of romantic poetry. The most famous slogan of aestheticism movement is "Art for Art's sake", which is one of the reasons why this literary movement can develop and form a certain scale in the middle and late period of British feudal gentleness Victoria. 1895, Wilde was imprisoned for the so-called "indecent assault". Even during his imprisonment, his creative inspiration was not affected at all. In a classic work called From the Deep, written to my boyfriend, he said "I am the symbol of art and culture in this era" more than once, and even muttered "beauty, only beauty is like this" before he died.
Wilde's persistent spirit in art, his rebellion and innovation in 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. Oscar Wilde's great achievement in drama lies in the language in dramatic dialogue, and every word deserves scrutiny. Wilde is a brave playwright, and his witty language reveals the decay and chaos of the upper class. Many famous aphorisms even come from some negative characters, which makes the dialogue more interesting and the characterization more full and true. It is the use of rhetoric that makes Wilde's plays meaningful and immortal.
For Wilde, contradictory rhetoric fully embodies his humorous language style. He skillfully put a pair of words with opposite meanings together to express more complicated thoughts and feelings or explain some meaningful philosophies. The ingenious use of contradiction modification method lies in revealing the complex psychological contradictions and philosophy of life in people's inner world. In an ideal husband, Mabel Chelton said, "I really like London! This has fully proved that Qingcheng is a beautiful fool and an outstanding madman. " Mabel said that she loves London, which has been fully proved, but her argument is that London is full of beautiful fools and outstanding lunatics. The contradictory expressions of "beauty", "fool", "Excellence" and "madness" reveal Wilde's satire on the upper class.
A large number of alliterations are used in Wilde's plays. For example, in the fourth act of Mrs. Windermere's Fan, when Windermere misunderstood Mrs. Ou Lin and satirized her, Mrs. Ou Lin said, "Dear Windermere, be polite first, then morality!" (My dear Wintermill. Elegant manners! ) The use of alliteration makes Mrs. Ou Lin's answer appear appropriate and humorous, showing her demeanor as a family.
Contrast is also a common skill of Wilde. By using contrast, Wilde's language is more fluent, his role is more distinct, and his essence is more prominent. In the last scene of Lady Windermere's Fan, when Duke Windermere commented on Lady Ou Lin, he said to his wife, "Dear, you and she belong to two different worlds. There is no evil in your world. " The wife replied, "Arthur, don't say that." This is our world. Good and evil, evil and innocence coexist. "In contrast, it profoundly reflects the change of Mrs. Windermere's attitude and the maturity of her thoughts. Mrs. Ou Lin, who used to be evil in her eyes, helped her and prevented her from eloping with her lover to maintain her perfect marriage. After all this, she no longer looks at the world with pure good and evil, but treats herself and others with an inclusive attitude.