文档介绍：Abstract Death is an inevitableending for our human beings isalsoan eternaltheme,a frequenter inthe eastern orwestern ,death impresses people with great agony aswell asthefeeling ,Oscar Wilde’S works,with theimpression ofbeing sadbut notdepressing,enrich“ sense'’and“poetic quality'’.Thus this thesismainly analyses thefrequent death in Wilde’S earlyworks,especially inhisfairytalcs,novelsandplays,80 astoexplain the richconnotations ofdeathfromtheperspectives ofaesthetics,Christianity aswell a8 reality,and toexplore thebasic sources ofdeath narrativecontained inhisworks. Chapter mainly focuses on introducing thesocial and culturalbackgrounds against which Wilde createdhisworks aswell astherelationship between deathand iSeasierandbetterfor UStounderstand theroleof death narrative insome of hisworksfromthesocial,economic,cultural and moralbackgrounds. Chapter IImainly presents differentstorieswithdeathendings inWilde’Sfairy tales,novels andplays such asthededicated death including deathforlove and death forkindness;the reborndeath;as well identaldeath,which mainly fucuses on thecharacters,actions,settings,events andplots related todeathstories,and on narrativediscourses. Chapter IIIisprimarily concerned withtherichconnotations ofthree types of death from three aspects, connotation ofdeath,Christianimplication of death,as well asthepracticalsignificance of death reflecting thereality etc,SO as to revealWilde’Sspecial death narrative. Chapter IVexplores the basic sources ofdeathnarrative inWilde’ sources focus onVictorian era as thesocialsource;Wilde’S family,personal belief and experience as theindividual source;as well asthe Dacadence asthetheoretical basis-these are themain factorsthatcausedWilde’S special death narrative inhis Y 孓 works. The lastchapter summarizes thetranscendence ofdeathinWilde’S works by analysing the artisticfunctionofdeath aswell asthemoralfunction