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| Aestheticism Literature |
Wilde’s main character, Dorian Gray, lives a life of pure pleasure and beauty, free from preachifying,and becomes interested only in that which is beautiful: Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you.Henry, one of Wilde’s characters believes that pleasure is the highest aim for human life he says that Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Wilde, inspired by Kant’s first movement, is promising the idea that beauty is not something that can be felt logically through thought. It must be experienced aesthetically, meaning through its pleasures.What is beautiful is mysterious because it is just experienced through pleasure not through reason.
The Kant's Third Moment ideas that are most accustomed to Wilde’s novel is about the“Relation of the ends that are taken into consideration in them”Any time there is a concept which is thought to have caused an object, the object itself is a purpose. Because of this, products which are a result of human apprehension are thought the be purposive . True Beauty, Free Beauty, is purposive in its form only; there is no purpose of an end.
The language used by Lord Henry existed just to give pleasure for the reader and does not educate. Lord Henry writes whatever he feels like saying on any subject.
The man even expresses Aestheticism in a woman’s suicide: “Someone has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience. It would make me in love with love for the rest of my life".Henry wishes to be in love with love itself, not a person, and looks at the suicide with an emotional disjoining, totally not interested in reason.
It's clear that Oscar Wilde studied aestheticism theory when looking at The Picture of Dorian Gray. Also,looking into Wilde’s anti-bourgeois approach to art and beauty,we can say that he was influenced by Immanuel Kant. Especially his Critique of the Power of Judgement. Wilde's main characters are created as aesthetes,rejecting the idea of a “moral” filter. A moral filter would make his novel a academic , and if it was was intended to teach, it would be purposive. Wilde is inspired by Kant’s anti-purposiveness of art.
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