Michael Sun từ Piqeras, Albania

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05/17/2024

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Michael Sun Sách lại (11)

2019-07-08 14:30

Tô Màu Thần Tiên - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Iginio Straffi

Weirdly rife with homoeroticism, even though the most explicit was edited out apparently, A Picture of Dorian Gray is mostly about Oscar Wilde’s musings on beauty, art and letting go of morals. I hated that most of the women in the story were vapid- even the outwardly ugly ones. (C'mon, surely they could've been thrown a bone?? I mean really, not a single woman of worth to be had??? Someone didnt like their Mama very much.) I didn’t like Harry much, seemed a predator to me, and tho I initially liked Dorian Gray- his lack of good judgment, backbone and eventual cruelty changed all that... however, when we saw the first alteration of the portrait, the story started clicking for me. It begins with a beautiful young Dorian Gray sitting for an artist. After seeing the painting, and listening to another older man extol the virtues of youth and hedonism, he unconsciously makes a sort of deal with the devil to stay young forever by acknowledging the older man’s advice to, and I paraphrase, “don’t resist and just go with it” when opportunities to debauch arise. Dorian’s face will never show the ravages of living by cruel means, and never grow old- because all of it will be thrust onto the image in the painting. But, as always, the easy way out is only a trap that leads to death. And it indeed ensnared Dorian. For me, with The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde does an excellent job of displaying the fact that freedom from, rather than of, moral stricture leads to destruction and true ugliness- which one can assume by the author’s lifestyle, is quite the opposite of what he was attempting to say. In the end the story became a cautionary tale on such a lifestyle and ultimately a prophetic symbol of Oscar Wilde’s own life, imo. Tragic. Lately, as I read the headlines, I just want to scream from my rooftops- Suck it up people, opposite of what the hedonistic lifestyle of the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s tried to tell us, and as much as nihilists would like it otherwise, we need law and a modicum of restraint or you will never experience the true joys in life. Sacrificing your wants, instead of sacrificing your children’s needs (and lives) on the altar of inconvenience, preferring someone else above yourself, and selfless kindness is the purest expression of beauty and one that this “civilized” society needs to revisit- pronto. You take that away and you have young men murdering each other on the streets, as well as defenseless mothers and daughters being slaughtered in their own homes without impunity. You have mothers abandoning their babies in dumpsters- or even worse hacking them up or drowning them! You have people eating other people’s faces off- literally-and sicko old men preying on children, with no justice for the victims. My soul is burdened by such things right now. Take it from Dorian Gray, when temptation comes to choose outward beauty over the milk of human kindness, its always best to choose the latter.

Người đọc Michael Sun từ Piqeras, Albania

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.