Abstract Salome is a mysterious image in western culture。 Her prototype stems from The New Testament of The Bible。 The image of Salome appears frequently in Western art history。 The play Salome is composed by nineteenth century English Aesthete Oscar Wilde。 In Salome, Wilde changes the original sense of the religious stories in the Bible。 He only uses its frame to express the theme of love and beauty, yet aestheticism is not the only theme of the play。 Love and death are implicit in the text and serve as the hidden theme。

Love and death seem to be an eternal theme。 To Oscar Wilde, love has more than one definition。 Love includes body love and spiritual love, the complicated relationships of the lover and the beloved, love between the opposite sex and the same-sex。 Salome’s true identity is a male so that her affection for John as well as Herod’s affection for her is actually homosexual。

Death is an inevitable ending for our human beings in reality。 Death is also an eternal theme。 Generally, death impresses people with great agony as well as the feeling of fear。 However, Oscar Wilde’s works, with the impression of being sad but not depressing, enrich “beautiful sense” and “poetic quality”。 Death also has different forms, natural death like the star-child, death for love like the actor Vera, death for kindness like happy prince。 75384

Though the main characters in this play can’t have a happy ending, they undoubtedly represent Wilde’s efforts to search for the ultimate value of death and the meaning of life。

Key words: Salome; Oscar Wilde; love; death

王尔德戏剧《莎乐美》中爱与死亡的主题

摘  要莎乐美是西方艺术中的一个神秘的形象,她的原型来自《圣经·新约》,在西方艺术史中莎乐美形象频频出现。戏剧《莎乐美》是19世纪英国唯美zhuyi作家王尔德创作的一出独幕剧，王尔德彻底将《圣经》中的宗教故事改变了原意，来表现他的唯美zhuyi思想。然而,唯美zhuyi并非该剧唯一的主题,爱与死亡也是笔者认为该剧隐含的另一主题。

爱和死亡似乎是一个永恒的主题，作为一个爱情悲剧，《莎乐美》同样有着这个主题。王尔德对爱和死亡都有着他独特的见解，在他看来爱包括了肉体的爱和灵魂的爱，爱在爱与被爱之间有着复杂的联系。同时王尔德是一个同性恋，《莎乐美》在不同性取向的人看来有着不同的感受。

死亡是剧中另一个主题，通常死亡给人带来的是痛苦和恐惧。而在本剧中的死亡给人的印象是悲而不忧，富有“美感”和“诗意”的气息。王尔德把死亡划分成很多种，自然的死亡，为爱而亡，因为仁慈的性格而亡。爱是死亡的升华，为爱而亡是一种解脱。

通过对《莎乐美》的文本细读，本文作者发现王尔德的写作目的不是单纯的描述爱与死亡。《莎乐美》中的人物虽然走向毁灭的悲剧，但他们都是在追求美和爱，都是在寻找人生的意义。

毕业论文关键词：《莎乐美；王尔德；爱；死亡

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Comparasion between Salome Described by Wilde and Salome in Bible 1

2。1 Salome Described by Wilde 1

2。2 Salome Described in Bible 2

3。 Love: the Hidden Theme 2

3。1 The Love in Salome 3

3。2 The concept of Love 4

3。3 The Theme of Love 4

4。 Salome: Death for Love