| dc.description.abstract | The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Victorian fiction written by Oscar Wilde,
an Irish. This research focuses on the representation of ‘aestheticism’ within the
novel itself. The aestheticism belongs to a concept which emphasizes on a
liberation of art and literature from any tendencies of Victorian in 1891. The
aestheticism promotes its slogan art for art’s sake. The representation of
aestheticism is depicted on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray through several
events that focus on art and beauty over everything. A beauty becomes an
important aspect and also dominant in every characters. They adore and worship
beauty.
There are three problems to discuss within this research. The first is about
the representation of aestheticism in the The Picture of Dorian‘s novel, the world
view constructed in the novel, and the last is politics of aestheticism in The
Picture of Dorian Gray. Thus, in completing this research, I use a qualitative
research method, and data to analyse and identify this research. The data gathered
in this research are some precise informations and facts about aestheticism and
some informations of social condition at Victorian age.
This research applies Goldmann’s theory of genetics structuralism. This
theory is used to construct the world view of aestheticism in the novel The Picture
of Dorian Gray. The analysis is divided into some parts focus on the
representation of aestheticism in the novel which also reveals several facts. The
analysis exposes the aestheticism which counts on beauty of art and life, and the
aesthetcism which serves the pleasure and hypocrisy through some characters and
yellow book within this novel. Furthermore, the semantic poles of binary
opposition is constructed to identify the author world view of aestheticism and
also the politics of aestheticism as the strategy of Wilde in promoting the new concept of aestheticism through this novel. | en_US |
