Influence of Romanticism
Through out the novel, Wilde uses a lot of imagery do describe the setting and the environment in which Basil works in. This is the influence of romanticism as it focuses on the awe-inspiring beauty of nature. Wilde never talks about the factories belching smoke and hungry children begging on the streets because it will then take away from the plot of the story. He instead talks about the beauty of nature. It is important to understand this because people, during the Victorian time, used writing to get away from reality. Life was not always abundant in joy and money like it was in the novel. In reality of things, not every one was rich, in fact, most of the population were poor. Wilde then took his imagination to the next level and created a world for people to get away from reality.
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