1/8/2024 0 Comments Oscar wilde gay quote![]() Looking at literature through a Queer Theory lens aims to overturn traditional views of sex and sexuality. Queer theory, as defined by Charles Bressler, utilizes methodologies from feminism, gender studies, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, and categorizes gender as a social construct – one that society should not dictate. Dorian Gray features a fixation on male beauty and a repeated pattern of hostile beliefs and remarks toward women, marriage, and fidelity, all likely due, at least in part, to the author’s homosexual nature and his perception of happiness, pleasure, and morality as a gay man in an era where homosexual desire is considered an immoral deviancy something to be ashamed of, hidden, changed, and by extension – studied. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Picture of Dorian Gray by esteemed author, Oscar Wilde, the reader dives into the interpersonal relationships between three members of Victorian Era English society in which Wilde explores aestheticism, immorality, and the Christian belief in the soul. ![]()
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