오스카 와일드의 사회적 미학: 「행복한 왕자 」와 「어부 」와 그의 영혼 가르치기

Oscar Wilde’s Socio-Aesthetics: Teaching “The Happy Prince” and “The Fisherman and His Soul”

Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales express his ‘socio-aesthetics’ well. Socio-aesthetics is a term that includes Wilde’s social interest in art and aesthetic sensibility to capture the essence of beauty. Wilde was influenced by the social reform movement as he interacted with fairy tale writers at the time. His views appear in his fairy-tale book, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891). “The Happy Prince” in The Happy Prince and Other Tales allows him to work and expand his ideas on Fabian socialism, described in his essay “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” (1891). “The Fisherman and His Soul” in A House of the Pomegranates expresses a critical view of the religion of his time, writing about his religious interests and his own homosexuality problems. Wilde used the symbolic nature of fairy tales to relate his social interests and his problems to social aesthetics in his fairy tale works.