WILDE’ TIMES: A MARXIST READING OF OSCAR WILDE’S “THE HAPPY PRINCE

Number: 19 September 1, 2014
  • Yiğit Sümbül
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WILDE’ TIMES: A MARXIST READING OF OSCAR WILDE’S “THE HAPPY PRINCE

Abstract

The aim of this article is to display the socially conscious stance of Oscar Wilde in the capitalist Victoriansociety with a deeper vision of it in his children’s stories, especially “The Happy Prince”. It is an indisputable fact that Wilde has always been associated with the aesthetic movement of ‘Art for Art’s Sake’, which supported the irresponsibility of the artist towards the reader or audience and defiance of moral obligations. However, Wilde’s major fairy tales seem to be contradicting with this claim with their deep moral code and veiled criticism of the present situation of the society. Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” tells, on the surface level, the romantic story of a golden statue of a prince and a little swallow in their struggle for helping the poor and the suppressed in their city. On a deeper level, the story takes a much more critical vision and functions as a Marxist criticism of the capitalist western ideologies. In this respect, the famous irresponsible aesthete of his time may be regarded as an employer of Marxist thinking with a moral purpose.

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September 1, 2014

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September 1, 2014

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Year 2014 Number: 19

APA
Sümbül, Y. (2014). ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN “MUTLU PRENS” ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 19, 161-168. https://izlik.org/JA28BY36MG
AMA
1.Sümbül Y. ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN “MUTLU PRENS” ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ. PAUSBED. 2014;(19):161-168. https://izlik.org/JA28BY36MG
Chicago
Sümbül, Yiğit. 2014. “ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN ‘MUTLU PRENS’ ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, nos. 19: 161-68. https://izlik.org/JA28BY36MG.
EndNote
Sümbül Y (September 1, 2014) ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN “MUTLU PRENS” ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 19 161–168.
IEEE
[1]Y. Sümbül, “ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN ‘MUTLU PRENS’ ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ”, PAUSBED, no. 19, pp. 161–168, Sept. 2014, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA28BY36MG
ISNAD
Sümbül, Yiğit. “ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN ‘MUTLU PRENS’ ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 19 (September 1, 2014): 161-168. https://izlik.org/JA28BY36MG.
JAMA
1.Sümbül Y. ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN “MUTLU PRENS” ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ. PAUSBED. 2014;:161–168.
MLA
Sümbül, Yiğit. “ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN ‘MUTLU PRENS’ ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 19, Sept. 2014, pp. 161-8, https://izlik.org/JA28BY36MG.
Vancouver
1.Yiğit Sümbül. ZOR ZAMANLAR: OSCAR WILDE’IN “MUTLU PRENS” ADLI MASALINA MARXİST BİR BAKIŞ. PAUSBED [Internet]. 2014 Sep. 1;(19):161-8. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA28BY36MG
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