Noble? Xueba? Bisexuality? Adult fairy tale writer? Pioneer of aestheticism? These are Wilde's labels, but none of them can fully represent him. In my opinion, he is the person who shows the contradiction incisively and vividly in this world.

Still, I don't hate him. On the contrary, I like him because of his contradictions Through his contradiction, I seem to be able to live a more sober life.

1884, Wilde got married and had children. 189 1 year, he published his first novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, which attracted his admirer, the son of a marquis. He was very handsome. Wilde called him Percy.

In this relationship, Wilde was exhausted and ruined, and the defendant went to court and finally lost his reputation. While Wilde was in prison in Lacrimosa, Percy published poetry outside.

In fact, when Percy and I were in love, Wilde said frankly:

Percy's mother also told Wilde that his weakness was vanity and his view of money was completely wrong.

Why did Wilde fall in love with Posey, such a lover with a lot of questions?

Or did he love Percy? In my opinion, he didn't.

The reason for this is the following：

First of all, their love motives are full of utilitarianism. Percy approached Wilde to study art, and he felt honored to have a best-selling author friend.

Wilde knows this, and my selfish guess is that Wilde and Percy are together because he only likes "beautiful" things. But whether this kind of beauty is superficial or "art for art's sake" depends on personal understanding.

The other is the explanation given by Wilde himself in prison:

As a master of aestheticism, Wilde's pursuit of beauty is almost fanatical, and he tries his best to show beauty from literary creation to clothes in daily life, but he doesn't value the beauty he worships in his heart, so the beauty he personally created in literary creation was destroyed by him.

For example, in the fairy tale The Fisherman and His Soul, Wilde created a beautiful love between the little mermaid and the fisherman, but sent a soul to seduce the fisherman. Finally, the fisherman did not resist the temptation and left with his soul. The fisherman's departure and the subsequent death of the little mermaid were all destroyed by the beautiful love created by Wilde in fairy tales.

The beautiful love between the fisherman and the little mermaid ended only because of a pair of daughter's feet. Does this represent the incompatibility between beauty and secularity that Wilde pursued?

But Wilde didn't give up. He made the barren land where fishermen and little mermaids were buried produce beautiful white flowers.

Wilde once again created a beautiful thing, and no one could resist its beauty, but after the priest blessed the fisherman and the mermaid,

At this point, Wilde once again destroyed the beauty he created.

Oscar Wilde's contradictory attitude towards beauty is completely revealed. Although he tried his best to defend beauty, he realized in his heart that the beauty he defended was not accepted by society.

So, he began to be disappointed again, and finally had to destroy the beauty he had created. The attitude of the whole fairy tale to beauty is creation-destruction-re-creation-re-destruction, which reflects Wilde's inner pain and tangled mood. In such an intolerant society, Wilde had to compromise.

In fact, the contradictions contained in Wilde's fairy tales, as well as the contradictions between his fairy tale creation and his aestheticism, are closely related to Wilde's Victorian social situation, his own growth experience and educational background.

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 1854. At that time, it was in the Victorian era, and Britain, which had just successfully completed the industrial revolution, had developed industry and prosperous economy.

With the development of economy, the bourgeoisie jumped into the upper class of society. As a new social stratum, the bourgeoisie is deeply influenced by the industrial society. They are capable and intelligent, but at the same time they are mercenary, deeply influenced by pragmatism and insatiable.

At the same time, due to the prevalence of science and pragmatism, religion gradually lost its past position. Whenever people encounter social unrest and don't convert, aestheticism and romanticism will appear.

Facing the Victorian era when material supremacy and hypocrisy prevailed, artists once again hid in the ivory tower of art.

Under the influence of positivism and scientific omnipotence, religion and books promoting religion have been ignored, but the decline of religion has not caused a sudden decline in social morality.

At least on the surface, Victorian interests and social morality were good, gentlemanly manners prevailed, the relationship between people was very harmonious, and people's enthusiasm for morality even reached the point of paranoia.

In Victorian times, talking about sex was especially forbidden. In order to avoid calling chicken breast white meat, the legs of the piano were covered with covers to prevent bad associations. Just because the piano leg is similar to a human foot, and the human leg is on it, the area above the human leg is considered unclean.

People are convinced that as long as a person is pure in sex, he must be beautiful and great.

On the contrary, if a person has no sexual restraint, then he will be considered bad.

In fact, the truth is that the relationship between men and women in Victorian upper class is extremely chaotic, and people are well aware of it. They think that as long as the relationship is not discovered, they are pure, just like the hypocrisy of upper class in Wilde's social comedy.

It is rooted in such a social environment that various contradictions will appear in Wilde's literary creation, which is a reflection of the current social situation and an expression of his inner feelings.

Wilde showed many contradictions both in his creation and in his life. Oscar Wilde's biographer Hercus Pearson said of him:

Enough to show how contradictory he is.