On The Aestheticism Of Salome

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) attracted the attention of the aca(?)emes both of the east and west world again a century after his death. Salome is a vital and special work of Wilde, storing the life energy of his aestheticism and being a representative work of such aestheticism.Many antinomies can be seen in Wilde, especially that between his theories of aestheticism and creative practice. On the one hand, he is the most energetic and representative aesthete, pursuing the pureness of art and the sovereign beauty as well as denying the utility character of art; but on the other side, he often betrayed such theory by disclosing the ugliness of the society and criticizing the unfairness of society in his works of aestheticism. Such antinomy was vividly expressed in Salome, which both resembles the beauty of art in his theory of aestheticism and the beauty of thoughts in such theory. But digging more deeply, one can find that the reason why Wilde called for the aestheticism theory of "art for art's sake" is that he was a traitorous aesthete. He is traitorous to the ugly social practice of "art for money" in Britain, and to the leading literature production measures such as romanticism and realism. Such starting point or incentive itself is utilitarian, thus it was not surprising that animadversion of realism and non-rationality can be seen in his works of aestheticism which was known for the beauty of art.Aestheticism is the key to understand the work of Salome, in which the theory of aestheticism of Wilde was practiced, the beauty of creation was presented through the subject of literature, the beauty of format was expressed by the scene and action of the drama, the beauty of imagination was reflected by the imago of the drama and the beauty of moment was given prominence by the end of the drama.But the beauty of art is not all what aestheticism has, because the image of Salome incarnated the beauty of love and desire, the beauty of satirizing was hidden in the character in the palace, the beauty of realism was shown in the consciousness of gender, and the beauty of mystery was contained in the consciousness of death. Such factors constituted the beauty of thought, which is also an important part of the aestheticism of Salome. Therefore Salome is the result of the perfect match of the beauty of art and thoughts.