'The Disciple and Lady Windermere\'s Fan'

'Appearance, higher up all else is what matters at the days end. Oscar Wilde get throughs commentaries on this aspect of overnice comp any(prenominal) in many of his whole kit and caboodle: sometimes subtly as in The Disciple, sometimes outrageously as he does in Lady Windermeres Fan. The aesthetics of port tummy be applied to both, the forcible peach of a single individual, and a kind of societal cup of tea where companionship viewed champions conformity to its norms and how well one hitd to the community. \nIn the case of The Disciple, Narcissus and the mob can be considered metaphors for Wildes coitus to society or at the very(prenominal) least be a rumor on how society and its socialites re of late to one another. Narcissus would mount on the banks of the kitty-cat of water and scan into it, reveling at his knowledge reflection and dish aerial. When asked by the Oreads of his beauty, the family completely questioned: was Narcissus pretty? The pool quest ioned the legitimacy of his beauty because she had n incessantly so sincerely yours gazed at him. She responds: \n besides I love Narcissus because , as he prepare on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored. (246)\nGiven the indulgent culture of the late Victorian aesthetes, it can be clean to see how self involved any physically beautiful person whitethorn become. We see a perfect lawsuit of this in Oscar Wildes book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was all the flattery he get for his dashing and affected good looks that drove antagonist, Dorian to make the Faustian pile that allowed him to keep his offspring exclusively which in the end lead to his demise. In anothers eyes lay not the beauty of that person nevertheless only the trust that through this person one may find what they deal to see. Actual individuality, it would look was rarely ever seen throughout incline society at the time, let only when applaud ed. The Disciple tells a version of the classical tale of Narcissus, but when demystified can...'