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A new explanation of Oscar Wilde's Salome

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Oscar Wilde's Salomeis well known as an aestheticist drama. People always review it from the angle of aestheticism, and the heroine, Salome, is regarded as a woman with sadist fleshly desires and one seeking morbid beauty. With feminist theory, this article makes a new analysis of Salome whose charater implies both feminine sense and Wilde's viewpoint about female.

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Oscar Wilde's Salomeis well known as an aestheticist drama. People always review it from the angle of aestheticism, and the heroine, Salome, is regarded as a woman with sadist fleshly desires and one seeking morbid beauty. With feminist theory, this article makes a new analysis of Salome whose charater implies both feminine sense and Wilde's viewpoint about female.

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Oscar Wilde's Salomeis well known as an aestheticist drama. People always review it from the angle of aestheticism, and the heroine, Salome, is regarded as a woman with sadist fleshly desires and one seeking morbid beauty. With feminist theory, this article makes a new analysis of Salome whose charater implies both feminine sense and Wilde's viewpoint about female.

Key concepts: Aestheticism, Beauty, Drama, Art, Literature, Philosophy, Aesthetics

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