O DUPLO NA OBRA O RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY, DE OSCAR WILDE

Abstract

This work is an investigation about the duo in a perspective of the irony and the narcissism, by the use of the esthetic language in the Oscar Wilde‟s novel: The portrait of Dorian Gray. The novel works with the manifestation of the beauty and the youth, in a relationship with the Victorian Age on the XIX Century, considering the preponderance of Dandy symbol in the tale. This research aims to demonstrate how the duo is an occurrence of the irony, presented in Dorian‟s character. It also aims to dispute the presence of irony in the manipulation process in the novel and the influence of the Estheticism in the action of this character. This study also approach the linguistic sign in interaction with the image, in this specific case, the portrait. This research adopts as methodology the qualitative approach, the bibliography revision and the analysis of contents as a support to make a comprehension about the society, the human practices and the values inside the novel. As a theoretical support, this study adopts many authors that discuss about cultural semiotics and language, art and literature and the studies of Muecke (1995), Todorov (2013), Kierkegaard (2005), Bakhtin (2005) end Barros (2008).