Задание

Complete the task. Read the text about Oscar Wilde's most popular novel and put the correct parts of the sentences below into the gaps. One number is extra.

Write one number in each gap.

Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic, who is considered one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. He wrote nine plays, one novel, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays. One of his most famous works is "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which was published in 1890.

This novel summarises the basic principles of Aestheticism. The Aesthetic movement that developed in late 19th-century Europe and Britain, emphasised the primacy of "art for art's sake" rather .

In Wilde's novel, the beautiful Dorian lives the life of the ideal aesthete, embracing all forms of hedonism in pursuit of new sensations. As he leads the life of decadence, behind closed doors his magical portrait conceals the horrors of his sins, his painted image becoming older and uglier while he remains unspoiled, young and charming. Dorian's path of excess is a destructive one, which leaves many victims. Wilde's story is not a straightforward tale of aesthetic pleasure, but, , it questions the bourgeois morality of the 19th century, .

1. that was very popular at that time

2. which required art to serve a higher purpose

3. than for its social, political, or moral "value".

4. like the Aesthetic movement