Oscar Wilde

Salome (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its time. The confluence of the various religious beliefs that dominated the Victorian era has been distanced, exoticized and reproduced by Oscar Wilde in his dramatic work of Salomé, symbolic and in one act. Many critics have recognized that this work represents the appearances of life in the Victorian era. Salomé has been considered in a very diverse way as --- the New Woman (Beckson, Dellamora) and as the Personified Decadence (Ellmann, Gagnier, Shewan, Dijkstra), while the character of Jokanaan has been interpreted as a personification of Christian celibacy from the Victorian era. Bram Dijkstra has written regarding the general interest of the fin-de-siecle in Salome that