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A 5 page paper which examines how Oscar
Wilde’s play “Salome” presents the viewer or reader with a western orientalism of
“other.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAwldsal.rtf
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is a highly complex and intriguing play that has confused many a critic and led to a great deal of explication in one respect or another. As one critic notes,
"Attempting to categorize, analyze, or even describe Oscar Wildes lyrical drama Salome is a problematic issue and a source of contention amongst critics. To many, Wildes willingness to appropriate themes
and treatments of the Salome legend from other authors of the period is a shortcoming; Wildes play is labeled as derivative or a mere imitation" (Thuleen, 1995). With this in
mind the following paper examines Wildes play from several perspectives that relate to a representation of "other" through the eyes of the Western world. Wildes Play and Other
One of the most important things to remember when examining "other" in Wildes play is that he used many different version of the legend when creating his own unique story.
As such it is very much a play that possesses many different cultural visions, rather than just a western vision. As noted by one critic, although "drawn on various legends
and histories to expand the setting of his drama...the characters themselves take on a lively, even larger-than-life quality. Alan Bird claims: The fact is that Wilde actually created the characters
of his play, rolling several historical Herods into one and using the biblical narrative as the slenderest of bases for his plot" (Thuleen, 1995). In addition, it should be noted
that many renditions of the legend had previously had the role of Salome as a minor one. "In Wilde, on the other hand, Salome is extremely self-aware and far more
powerful, in the end, than her mother. So too has Herodias, long the heroine of legend -- witness the titles of nearly all the previous literary treatments -- both gained
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