"The Young King"una propuesta ético-social de Oscar Wilde
ISSN: 0210-9689
Año de publicación: 1990
Número: 14
Páginas: 129-138
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: ES: Revista de filología inglesa
Resumen
At the same time as Oscar Wilde was establishing himself as an aesthetic artist with his fairy tales, he set out to offer a new morality that exposed the dangers underlying an exclusively aesthetic stance. This article analyses the specific symbols and situations in "The Young King" through which the author presents the socio-ethical conflict between materialism and spirituality, art and Christianity that results in the hero's progressive consciousness of his moral guilt as an "aesthete" and of his true responsibility as a Christian and as a king.