Signs, Object and Myth in “A Portrait of Dorian Gray”, by Oscar Wilde

Abstract

Art produces signs and meanings. However, literature eternalize them, even more on those works considered masterpieces. Dorian Grey´s Portrait, Oscar Wilde´s masterpiece, envolves mythology when, in the subtext, Oscar Wilde suverts Narcise´s myth with the character Dorian Gray and what was suposed to be a representation´s crisis about what men feel about reaching his beauty and youth therefore, as a choosen methodogy, a bibliografy analysis had to be done. A first reading was done to obtain a generaly vision and, in a second reading, some articles about Narcise´s myth, by Carl Gustav Jung and Lúcia Santaella were utilized. Keywords: Literature; Oscar Wilde; Unconcious; Semioptic; Mythology.