"The Young King": una propuesta ético-social de Oscar Wilde

• Autores: María Concepción Sanz Casares
• Localización: ES: Revista de filología inglesa, ISSN 0210-9689, Nº. 14, 1990, págs. 129-138
• Idioma: español
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  • At the same time as Oscar Wilde was establishing himself as an aesthetic artist with his fairy tales, he set out to offer a new morality that exposed the dangers underlying an exclusively aesthetic stance. This article analyses the specific symbols and situations in "The Young King" through which the author presents the socio-ethical conflict between materialism and spirituality, art and Christianity that results in the hero's progressive consciousness of his moral guilt as an "aesthete" and of his true responsibility as a Christian and as a king.