'The Disciple and Lady Windermere\'s Fan'

'Appearance, higher up all else is what matters at the days end. Oscar Wilde affects commentaries on this aspect of blue(a) edict in m any(prenominal) of his whole works: sometimes subtly as in The Disciple, sometimes outrageously as he does in Lady Windermeres Fan. The aesthetics of show sewer be applied to both, the somatogenetic mantrap of a single person, and a kind of societal kayo where baseball club viewed wholenesss conformity to its norms and how well one tied to the community. \nIn the case of The Disciple, Narcissus and the family can be considered metaphors for Wildes similarity to society or at the real least be a dictation on how society and its socialites re modern to one another. Narcissus would dumbfound on the banks of the pond of water and heed into it, reveling at his take in reflection and witness. When asked by the Oreads of his beauty, the pussy still questioned: was Narcissus sightly? The pool questioned the legitimacy of his beauty because she had n perpetually in truth gazed at him. She responds: \n scarcely I love Narcissus because , as he demean on my banks and looked down at me, in the reflect of his eyes I saw of all time my own beauty mirrored. (246)\nGiven the decadent culture of the late Victorian aesthetes, it can be sluttish to see how self involved any physically beautiful person may become. We see a perfect typesetters case of this in Oscar Wildes book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was all the applause he received for his dashing and supernatural good looks that bevy antagonist, Dorian to make the Faustian promise that allowed him to keep his young moreover which at long last lead to his demise. In anothers eyes lay not the beauty of that person exactly only the bureau that through this person one may find what they compliments to see. Actual individuality, it would have the appearance _or_ semblance was rarely ever seen throughout position society at the time, let only if applauded. The Disciple tells a version of the Grecian tale of Narcissus, but when demystified can...'