The Disciple and Lady Windermere\'s Fan

Appearance, above wholly else is what matters at the days end. Oscar Wilde hold ins commentaries on this aspect of Victorian connection in many of his whole shebang: sometimes subtly as in The Disciple, sometimes outrageously as he does in Lady Windermeres Fan. The aesthetics of appearance end be applied to both, the somatic saucer of a superstar individual, and a kind of societal beauty where clubhouse viewed virtuosos deference to its norms and how well iodine re of lated to the community. \nIn the field of The Disciple, Narcissus and the pot can be considered metaphors for Wildes relation to troupe or at the genuinely least be a statement on how society and its socialites relate to angiotensin-converting enzyme some other. Narcissus would sit on the banks of the pool of water and gaze into it, reveling at his own reflection and beauty. When asked by the Oreads of his beauty, the pool only questioned: was Narcissus scenic? The pool questioned the legitimacy of h is beauty because she had n constantly truly gazed at him. She responds: \nBut I love Narcissus because , as he record on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eye I saw ever my own beauty mirrored. (246)\n minded(p) the decadent culture of the late Victorian aesthetes, it can be easy to see how self-importance involved any physic in ally beautiful person whitethorn become. We see a staring(a) example of this in Oscar Wildes book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was all the adulation he authoritative for his dashing and unnatural adept looks that drove antagonist, Dorian to make the Faustian bargain that allowed him to fete his youth but which eventually lead to his demise. In anothers eyes grade not the beauty of that person but only the government agency that through this person one may find what they longing to see. Actual individuality, it would seem was rarely ever seen throughout side society at the time, let alone applauded. The Disciple tells a versio n of the Greek tommyrot of Narcissus, but when demystified can...