2015-№2(47) Article 9
O.M. Valova
The motif of intoxication in Oscar Wilde’s works. P.86-96.
УUDC 821.111.“19”
The paper treats the motif of intoxication through the prism of O. Wilde’s philosophy of unreality. O. Wilde’s dandy-characters who express the author’s point of view are subject to opium intoxication. They are observers, whose ideas are based on the philosophy of fatalism, individualism, art-for-art’s-sake theory. They seek oblivion of routine in intoxication. In O. Wilde’s tragedies wine symbolizes blood as the Atonement. Wine spilled on the floor or on earth is a pagan token. Intoxicated (enamored) adulterers and murderers communicate to God through repentance and self-improvement. O. Wilde was not the first to exploit the motif of intoxication, but he was the first to weave it into a philosophy.
Philosophy of unreality, dandy, O. Wilde’s comedies, opium, T. de Quincey, Ch. Baudelaire, O. Wilde’s tragedies, wine, Eucharist
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