【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 Chapter 1 Morality of Literary Works No one could be free from moral whether to be against it or to be in coherence with it. All the works and their authors were endowed with morality, though it was not always in consistence with the dominant. To be pletely objective and nonmoral was impossible. The works had to do with reality and it would have to deal with the value judgment and ethnical problems. No matter how hard the author tried to be objective, he certainly showed his personal moral inclination at least through the selection and arrangement of materials, as David Masson pointed out that the value judgment had its inevitability. As long as the author extracted materials from the real life, the morality emerged with it. Wilde wanted to cast away morality through the “art for art” principle or plucking into the sensation of crimes, but he never really or pletely discarded the moral awareness. Then he transgressed the moral into aesthetics. In the long history of western literature, spiritual function of literary was dominated. As early as in the earliest Greek mythology, there had been the moral