Compare and contrast the ways in which Tolkien and Wilde present the corruption of good in ‘Lord of the Rings’ (1968) and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1890).Examine the view that everyday objects can become powerful entities.
Compare and contrast the ways in which Tolkien and Wilde present the corruption of good in ‘Lord of the Rings’ (1968) and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1890). Examine the view that everyday objects can become powerful entities. The corruption of good in both J.R.R. Tolkien’s work ‘Lord of the Rings’ (1968) and Oscar Wilde’s novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1890) can be clearly seen due to specific powerful objects such as the One Ring and the Painting and the influence that they then have with its capabilities to corrupt all good into a more morally ambiguous state. However, there are also ways in which the corruption contrasts according to critics such as Tolkien and Wilde having extremely different views on morality due to the different genres such as Tolkien creating a world with a much more black-and-white morality due to the fantasy setting whereas Wilde changed the conventional morality of the time with themes such as homo-eroticism involved in his work.