TIOBE - context Flashcards
Wilde’s philosphy
Clear and consistent philosophy, can be divided into three main areas:
1. His belief in the need for aesthetic critical judgement as essential to personal development (expressed in the critic as an artist)
2. The urgent need for wide social reform for which individual transformation was essential (The Soul of Man Under Socialism)
3. His belief in an evolutionary theory of organic, social-historical development with himself as a leader (De Profundis)
Fairy Tales for social reform
Able to manipulate the flexible genre of the fairy tale to incorporate ideas about need for social reform. “The Happy Prince and other tales.”
Three essays Essays In collection: Intentions
Fourth, political essay released same year : 1891
Clearly express his philosophy about critical judgement and need for social reform.
1. The Soul of Man Under Socialism
2.The critic as Artist
3 The Decay of Lying
4. The soul of man under socialism
Editor of Magazine
The Lady’s world - changed name to the woman’s world.
Expressed clear intentions to: offer intellectual content as a democratic gesture indicating his belief in female equality.
The French Revolution
Wilde agreed with Thomas Carlyle’s theory which presented the power of the revolutionaries positively, as the start of a historical process of social change.
Ironically, Lady B reveals aristocrats’ fears about effect of revolution and of democratic change. Yet the emptiness, folly and viciousness of her views shows exactly why such change was needed.
What is the worldview in TIOBE?
Two elements: A concern for social reform, and a desire to promote the centrality of aesthetic beauty in art. Wilde relished the pleasure of a distinguished society, yet as something of an outsider - an anglo-Irish writer and ardent socialist- he was at the same time deeply aware of the corruption and cold-heartedness of the wealthy.
What was a new woman?
arah Grand coined the term “New Woman” as the term for a woman liberated from oppressive Victorian standards, who “does not in the least intend to sacrifice the privileges she enjoys
