Thursday, March 4, 2010

Dorian Gray Preface Assignment

I did not particularly enjoy the preface as I do not enjoy this type of abstract, artsy writing. I find it somewhat difficult to understand. I did get certain concepts out of this preface. One thing was that people who find faults in beautiful things are corrupt, or in other words, pessimism is bad. People live their lives constantly attempting to find faults in everything while failing to see life's beauty. Wilde then goes on to talk about the morality of books, he states that there are no moral or immoral books, just well writen or badly written. This is a statement I completely agree with, throughout history certain books have gone from ridiculed to acclaimed. The morality of books is not objective, it is based on the opinions of the reader. Certain people could love books that another person would dispise.

No comments: