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Wilde says: " 'The only people a
painter should know,' he used to say, 'are people who are bete and beautiful,
people who are an artistic pleasure to look at and an intellectual repose to
talk to." (Paragraph #4)
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The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde
Paradoxically we put mystery to the mystery
In
this tale Oscar Wilde shows us a love history surrounded by the mystery and by
the impotence of a man that loves an unknown beauty, the mysticism of Lady
Alroy caught him, this is not the currently love history, this is one that
shows us what love is in some occasions: A mystery and not just because a
person in the relation is surrounding by secrets and hidden things, also
because love for its own is a mystery.
My
hypothesis based on this text is: Nowadays people used to give too much
importance about what they see of others, about the appearance and what they
can perceives, and is common to see that people used to judge only for a
general perception of the other, and we really do not know about the reasons
the others have to act in the way they do, is most of the cases we do not let our self to
see beyond what all people used to see, we focus only in the generalities and
is some occasions this does not let us enjoy to be with someone, because we
think only in what the other could be hiding and this delete for us the
opportunity to be with someone, like is shown is this text, only because the
distrust.
I can say that some of us, as women
like to have some mystery, not because we have something to occult, just
because is bored to be as common as others, is bored that a person looks at
you, and in that moment that person is able to know all about us, is good to be
transparent but it only let the others see ALL about us, and there is not any
more interest to discovered what else we have in that situation we do no need
to see beyond. In my personal opinion is in the eyes of the other where we can
find the mystery, ones bigger that others, but it does not mean that the
mystery is not there, but is too important to have clear that mystery is not
always bad.
The society is not able to
understand that real beauty is never in the physical part, the mystery is what
involves the beauty, is what captive most of the people, is those things that
if we look in a superficial way we cannot discover, Wilde (1894) says: “Its
beauty was a beauty moulded out of many mysteries - the beauty, in face, which
is psychological, not plastic-” (paragraph #9) , nowadays our society give more
importance to that plastic beauty, and the psychological beauty is not as
important as it should be, people is in the wrong path, trying to put their
attention in common things that are in any place, in this common society, and
those ones which beauty is full of mystery are judge.
In Colombian
context is common to see that in most of
the cases relations are over just because the distrust, but love is supposed to
be able of overcome all those things that do not let the relation go beyond,
but now in this society in which all things have become disposable and
temporally, even the relationships, the love have another meaning, we do not
trust in the other, Wilde (1894) says: “I cannot love where I cannot trust”
(paragraph #2) and like this is the thinking of most of the people in our
society in which is easier to throw something that is not working good, instead
that from the beginning built it strong, and step by step make it able to work,
we do not realize that love involve mystery, and we most see beyond not where
all people used to see, we most built the trust and that is not common in this society.
Finally I can say that is important
to learn how to give our attention to what other can offer to us, not only in what
we can see of them because most of the time this is only a wrong and
superficial perception.
If we
judge other just because, we can be making a big mistake because we delete the
opportunity to know the other, to build the trust between us, and this is why
we must not to make accusations without knowing what is the real reason that
the other person has.
We
do not have to judge the mystery, because this is something that is in all of
us, because anybody never is going to be able to know all about you, something
will be always a mystery.
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