• Title of article

    The Gender Awareness of Oscar Wilde: Comparison between His Women Characters and Men Characters

  • Author/Authors

    Li ، Yingyi China Agricultural University , Yi ، Li China Agricultural University

  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    1020
  • To page
    1025
  • Abstract
    Oscar Wilde has been well known in two aspects: an aesthete and a homosexual. This paper intended to indulge in his gender awareness by the comparison between his women character depiction and men character depiction from one of his novels, the Picture of Dorian Grey , and three plays of his: An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere’s Fan and Salome. In the end, we got a conclusion that his personal life attributed to his ambiguous awareness on the women characters.
  • Keywords
    gender awareness , character depiction , orientation , Wilde
  • Journal title
    Journal of Language Teaching and Research
  • Serial Year
    2015
  • Journal title
    Journal of Language Teaching and Research
  • Record number

    2482903